Watching Our Warts

Sloping down in gold pursuit 
of a bruised city,
sons of nameless fathers
were changing the generic mandate.

I am becoming fluvial 
going on a muted odyssey
to find unmarked graves.

Slaughtering 
your own lines, in praise of end-
which came very soon;
before the windows altered the moon.

Genes spilled on the road
recalling the wounded
son whose lexicon took him
to war with the meanings. 



Satish Verma
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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