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Shivapriya Ganapathy


The Coming

You come
you always come
when I shampoo my head
waters streaming down
the drain…
You come
you take me unarmed
when I sit on the garden wall
gazing, gaping at
colluding squirrels on
coconut trees.
You come
trying to catch those
bushy tails
and prance right
under my eyes
Sly fox! Coy lover,
muse, you come,
you always do.
Ah! you know when
I am unarmed.

Hidden behind those lilac
curtains,
the space your living
a mirage,
you come.
If only windows
had tongues!
Your evasive elusive
tiptoes feed my mind,
my eyes, and
I gaze more and more
and more wide
and you still come
you always come
as you do
on rainy nights
those pearl drops clinging
sliding down electric wires
you gurgle at them
cooing, counting,
you come in drops-tasting.
You come. 

Picture
Picture


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Trail the mind

Trail the mind as it goes dry,
a trickle and nothing more
so soon, soon swoons

Time a beggar
and I the tricked
walk parched brown lands
counting cracks 

Of lost steps and wishful 
thinking. An urge and
a rightful anger.

Touch

Touch 
and bloody thy hands, or
go non-perceived 
the words, me,
unspoken,
only ripped off
by force or silence.
Or sometimes love.
It is pain enough
to utter--
to deliberate and 
yet pace
the breathed,
nurtured, tasted 
and gulped 
words.

Hypnotized

The hypnotizing torch of
the pale night sky
heals me with her scars
and washes my sins
in white…
Bleeds through my window
Her graceful intrusion
as I lay naked knowing
Sinful clouds shroud even
Her grace! 

Erasure Poem: Page of The Great Gatsby

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               s 
                                     h       i              n         e

      i
                                 am
Conscious of


                                                my

                                                   twilight


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