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The Bowstring That Passes Through the Centre

is the tendency of the  reddish sunshine 
to become drenched some more 

let us hear 
what the milky-way seamed by pins 
says 

and it’s you 
how much can you be able to read 
the venation of the Barringtonia acutangula 

can you touch the season of making apples 
in the aquarium 

the empty bottles without any co-ordinate 
that shoulder with endless grief 
the hands of the wall-clocks

in a sudden depression
they’re also making crowd 
at the beauty parlour

you have promised someday 
to present a flower-vase to display some drops of blood 
in the circled face 

do you remember it

you haven’t floated that turnip 
till now 

here the month of trumpet-flower 
covers everything 
with reedy grass 

with the festival of colours of the white horses 
the new leaves of bananas become associated 

the total dipavali rows 
along the evening-balcony

taking it as daylight 
will any bird fly towards it 

then send a walkman 
for the bamboo plants

you must go today 
in search of the source 
of the hand-woven lamp-post 

from the pitcher-worship to the kantha-stitch 
it is a  very large
twelve-horned deer

the mango-marrow 
demands more land 
demands more kingfisher 

the breath of the Ravenala
touches the chicks of the black-pepper 

in every evening 
the flood that tears the button 
touches the bowstring 

that passes through the centre of  magnolia

Copyright © Murari Sinha




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