Issue A1 | Poetry | February 2015

Poema: A Poem

Upasana Sarraju

I (or The End Of Life)

You talk sad.

I talk expensive.

Potato tart appetisers

are rare. Baby shrimp are rare.

But you dog!

It is true.

I am hungry.

Goodbye my waiter!

It is closing time.

II (or It Is The Nature of The Weightless To Soar)

Inside I am blue.

You are invisible within.

For those watching

you are an elegant dinosaur

I am a blue whale

drowning.

When you soar

I cry

for you

for me.

III (or Death By Sigh)

Your antstep sighs,

the unnoticed soft infinity

I hunger for, when

my lungs dance

to the percussion

of your lips.

IV (or Identity)

I am a circle

Living in a circle,

Transparent

diaphanous,

light,

but whole.

V (or Silhouette Of a Boy I Find Beautiful)

An acquaintance breeze

interrupts me.

He wafts in and out

of my room

every hour

shattering my skin

with every goodbye.

VI

A quiet indignity

Adhered

to my eyebrows

even as, a riddle

unravelled itself,

giggling,

into a mess of four-dimensional puns,

thread and bees.

VII (or A Quiet Ache)

The world is amazed

to watch

a cube,

a quiet liar,

chase after sculptures

searching eyes

for beauty

that will burn.

VII (or Nightmares of the heart)

That choking feeling

The faint smell on breath

that never truly washes away.

Some screaming day

They will find me, only to

Abandon me forever.

VIII (or Dramatic Mouse)

A dramatic mouse

Stole my blanket

The other night.

He ran out the window

Weighed down by my

Purple, fuzzy blanket,

Shouting,

“To cheese, or not to cheese!”

IX (or Unconditional)

I would cut out my heart

for you.

But it is my surgeon’s daughter’s birthday.

Perhaps in the morning.

X (or Solitude)

Solitude.

I like having company

to ignore.