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Ninad Bhat

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Health

Wednesday, May 18, 2022 - 19:47

GAD

She went to the doctor today

And we told her she was sick

She didn’t need a visit to know

That unfortunate truth

She has a fickle parasite within

And it is resistant to all she provides

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Arts & Culture

Monday, February 28, 2022 - 09:38

The Weights On Either Side

Before twenty five I have

Seen towers fall and dictators rise

As if history is a lever that seeks

equilibrium. I trust that the balance

It requires is on my side

But even then I do not know which

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Arts & Culture

Monday, December 6, 2021 - 12:29

Shelter-In-Place Syndrome

I am keeping a prisoner; This breath I took two weeks ago; I refuse to let it leave; It paces back and forth within me

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Arts & Culture

Monday, September 20, 2021 - 10:25

Batteries

Ninad Bhat’s “Batteries” is the winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Creative Writing category. The poem introduces an everyday, offhand idiom of the pandemic and turns to search for deeper meaning about stolen time, privilege, and racial injustice.

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Arts & Culture

Saturday, February 8, 2020 - 11:05

Paused

Seated in plain sight he is invisible

The passersby halt for a moment to note

That something might be there, but they

Aren’t really sure.

She pauses a moment longer than most.

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