
My Body Is A Prison - Zine
A zine by Varsha Panikar from their ongoing mixed-media series, Origami Folds. Available on Amazon Kindle.

So what have you been up to since?
So much money spent and so many years of education later, I can not even remember most of the information I memorized and regurgitated.


Apologies and such.
How many 'I am fine' rolled between your tongue despite the heaviness you feel in your chest?

Origami Folds (Brown Bodies)
Excerpt from my series Origami Folds.
Published in the zine - Brown Bodies by The Rights Collective.

Origami Folds (Skins)
First published in the zine - Skin - a Marketplace Journal by Forbidden Verses on 20th March 2021 Download the Zine here.


Giving Up The Ghost
You ever wish that you could just rewind?
Go back in time,
And just turn out fine?


A muse of tragedy - Part 1
Every sad faced clown, every overblown ‘everyone dies in the end’ play, every awful pop song about heartbreak. I’m the one behind all that..


Paranoia II
I will wait for better times on the other side and find myself drawn to your gravity, once again, but time...


I am always tired
All that awaits me now, is death and her kiss, like slivers of moonlight on my shoulders and hopes that this night slips away without us...

I am colour
Part of a series combining spoken word with images. 'I Am Colour', uses colours as metaphors, as thoughts, as emotions, and at times a mere

Transient Affair
I know that these moments are brief,
That this is perhaps,
Merely an erotic coupling
For those who dared and dreamed,
And that is fine b


Kiss me once more
First published in Love Portions, in the February 2020 issue of Rogue - The Zine by Ratio Auream Publishers under the publications One...

Whispers To My Shadows
A photo-poetry digital zine (up for release in 2021). It is personal account of struggles with depression, body dysphoria, identity, &...


Origami Folds
Exploring the human body and using it as a metaphor for the separation of skin and psyche, and letting it become a medium to explore...


Moving past old hauntings
The haunts, all vacant; old reveries of memories held dearly no more; they persist, and like nails, they pierce through the skull like...


Forest Dreams
A girl's journey into the forest, inspired by folklore, myth, dreams and memories. An ongoing poetry series.


Bodies Of Desire
Bodies Of Desire, is a queer poetry series that explores themes of identity, curiosity, discovery, passion, empathy, sensuality & intimacy.