I pluck sadness out of me
and plant it into the earth of His heart.
I don’t wish to find it hovering above
in the eagle circling in the thermals
or the sun’s mystifying halo…
Category: Poetry
Two Poems
What else? Ghee, puffed wheat,
semolina, cigarettes, 200 cartridges,
spare hookah pipes, rifle-cleaning cloth,
malted Horlicks, Tiffin tins
a little stained by blood and mud. What else…
Testimony
Testify
That you have lived through
the barren Fall
Testify
That the flow of time
was treacherous then,
Strong was the tide
and hard to swim against…
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