Thursday, June 28, 2012

In my mind's eye


In my mind's eye I stand gangly tall, with a slight width to my hips. 

In my mind's eye, I take to water like a dived-in otter, I crinkle my hairy nose and shake my bottom ever so slightly. 

In my mind's eye, there is a blue jay at the corner of my vision. 

In my mind's eye, I am standing beside Douglas Adams when he is posing as Arthur Dent while lying stone drunk on a smelly heap of hay. 

I can eat an entire steak, and not just with my eyes. I can hike mountains with a old branch for a walking stick. 

In my mind's eye, I could be the student's mind in Florence. I can see what I look like to an old Victorian lamp. 

In my mind's eye, I sit on the edge of the vibration of music on the walls of my heart. I feel my uterine walls stocking up. 

In my mind's eye, my love for my unborn child scares me sleepless, so much that I dare not do that. 

In my mind's eye I'm gullible. 

Everyone is either collectively smarter, or dumber than I am. 

In my mind's eye, I can feel the hot frying on potato skin. 

In my mind's eye I am soft inside, and softer outside.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Somethings

There is something

To be said

For that unnamed fear

An uncomfortable tugging

At an unimaginable part

On the underside of

What they call the heart

And something more

To be said

For when it is teased

Out of its place

To assume

A monstrous proportion

It blackens

Casts a shadow

And leaves you with

A perpetual drone

Stirring somewhere inside

It becomes

Your incompleteness.

And no intelligent verse

Or sugar saturated word

Can help you coat it

In vain, to try and seal it

Like that root

Growing around a stone

Until a handcrafted ped

Dislodges it

Dislodged now

It reveals

A rough healing

But the sun

Warms with its shining

Friday, February 3, 2012

Bombay.

So heavy eyelid collapsing on bed.
So sluggish and out of breath.
So surfing the world next to tiny open window.
So unwritten on stationery.
So wasteful culinary experiments.
So seeking pockets of the rest of the world.
So comfortably cheap hangouts.
So suspicious of ricksha fare.
So advertising wilderness.
So boringly different all the time.
So no time for hair and lips.
So broken down notions.
So frustratingly atypical.
So un-hot college girls.
So unusually myopic bomayite.
So migrant utopia.
So local train announcements.
So sunglassed lack of grunge.
So so many windows.