You were talking about walking, barefoot,Into the sea, with orange fires between eyesShe was last seen behind the customs warehouseChanting skeptical mantras with a lispLips trembling with fearful doubtsThe shadows there gobbled her upActually the sea only gobbles up shadows.As had happened with that manWho returned bloated at high tideYou see we have never worshippedThese [...]
Archive for July, 2006
8 Jul
God’s mountains
Invisible are their powers, unfelt and secureThe mountains lay there brown and puffingIn the mid-noon sun among yellow-dropped leavesThe scrolls on their walls dated back to eonsBrown-skinned ancestors shrieked, ghosts,Their smelly wings flapped in cave-silencesSeveral worn-out paths winded to forgot ruinsThere they stopped midway vanishing in bushesThe temple bells were heard under the banyan treeThe [...]
