Aardhra Chandran is a poet and Postgraduate Student from Kerala, India. She writes poetry grounded in memory, family, and lived experience. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Active Muse, Eunoia Review, Borderless Journal, Zhagaram Literary Magazine, and more. You can find her on Instagram: @aardhrachandran and X: @AardhraChandran.
Poems by Aardhra Chandran: ‘Concrete trucks rumble past his fence, shaking the loose teeth / in his jaw, spitting black diesel smoke onto his holy basil plant. // He measures his life not in years, but in missing trees—/The neem chopped for wood, the mango that died of thirst.’