Joao-Roque Literary Journal

By Marinella Proença

Issue no. 8

What yanks him from a cozy bed
What harkens him before the red
Ball peeps: wakes up from sleep
To scatter light from antiquity

By Salil Chaturvedi

Issue no. 8

My first memory
is of standing
in the middle
of a narrow iron bridge,
legs akimbo

By Suneeta Peres da Costa

Issue no. 7

At the turn off to the temple, smoke rises in the hills. In the fields, two women, red and green dhotis, bend to pick the dry grasses for cattle feed.  The new paddy is yet to be sown ...

By Frederika Menezes

Issue no. 3

A whistle in the wind
Of a long dreamed dream