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The Waterlogged Nervous SystemRain rubs me away;
now no one rocks in the balcony
and listen to the cascade,
suffers a memory of a better oblivion -
summer fishing and drowning,
a body underneath or perhaps a beast
undulating a bleary thicket.
Rain knocks on my pane;
the dolor it will convey holds its patience
like a widow waiting for the next kin.
I no longer open the windows.
Each drop, born amnesic, begins
to efface me again and again -
now I cease to exist, and now I sit
wet, cold, holding some Juniper heavy
evocation, and now wiped out once more.
Rain, Rain. Encore.
A
Fragile Song of DNA
"Destiny is DNA,"
Tim says
while mending the fence
his father forged
circling the decay
his own father built.
Someone cooks Indian.
Tim wipes away his eyes.
We all in our black best.
Soon my friend finishes and
turns to say something more
crumbles the fence. No offense, Tim,
you cannot build what's unbuilt.
Dining Beneath A Saint
The saint bears her sadness;
she doesn't care a hoot if you glorify it
as a crown, probably of rose-thorns.
In the photograph she looks at something
below your eye-level; you murmur grace and eat;
summer tastebuds always find brine in everything.
The saint estivates in the air and breeze; melancholy's
lazedom dines on these long nights. Sometimes,
you want to follow the eyes of the saint and see
if she stares at the space where your heart should've bloomed
like a gardening gone wrong, like the boy alive within
spat some arbitrary seeds and fell asleep for years to come.
Kushal Perusal, Kolkata, West Bengal, India