Forbidding

Standing knee deep in water 
invoking the sun god 
going upward phenomenally.

I was learning to forget 
the edicts of a fake lord.
Would not recognize-

the dirty tricks of a godman 
in the garb of a hermaphrodite.
One day he was ... 

One day he was not. The wild 
czar was pounding his chest.
A snow-capped moon was- 

going down unseen in the
blue lake of words. There 
was three dimensional appearance

but no deliverance for
the poor speech in distress.


Satish Verma
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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