INDEX OF
Case Files & Testimony
Preamble
The Trial of the Unblinking Eye
The Charge Case File 01Screaming Metal Tank
Evidence Case File 02Warriors Without Saline
Evidence Case File 03The Temperature Religion
Evidence Case File 04A Shoe and a Bone
Evidence InterludeID
Identity Case File 05The Gentleman
Evidence TestimonyThe Old River
Witness VerdictThe Conclusion of the Trial
Judgment The CorrectionThe Yellow Flower
Case Closed EpilogueA Storm Wrapped Up in Light
The Survivor Final WordThe Ink
Resurrection
THE POET
About
"First-Degree Reflection and Malicious Clarity."
Dry Leaves of Neem Trees is a collection of poems structured as a trial — a courtroom where poetry itself stands accused of telling the truth too plainly. Through case files, testimony, and verdict, these verses bear witness to displacement, war, identity, and the stubborn persistence of beauty in the cracks of concrete.
Each poem is evidence. Each line is testimony. The reader is the jury.