AGOG: The Week

sponge-soft idlis,
dosas flipped up, flying from the pan,
crisp as red lace
and other idylls.

keep up with the weights
from gym to Gym
heavy, light or feather
with garb to get trim.

Venuses in transit:
from the world of hospitality,
after an extended gap
-updated files: of rolled chapattis and talking styles.
then a siren
from a glossy world
-the schedule a mystery, the day, a whirl.
and finally, an alternative fox
some preoccupations: jackals, monkeys
-edged away from the box.

meantime,
another toast
to a gang of girls
is raised as a flag unfurls.

snatches

22nd July, 07
Rainbow
-the quintessential arch
notions of hidden gold
buried deep
in the seeds of a storm

Waterfall
Clearing, clambering
boulders
tangled shade
brooks some moss
-diversity.
Intrepid it would sound
or to the disbelieving, fabricated.

Foothills
Hill-brooms, womens’ craft
Hairstyles, pineapples,
Fashion statements
Value added
Vroom
Through fields and ponds
To pots of water
buried in the ground
A form of drip irrigation
Challenges the imagination

Ascent
To the cloudy range
Home-like.
-Connection.
Testers, feelers, plus-points, thoughts
On that day of the invincible Juggernaut.


























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Off-shore

Cross currents pull swimmers down
The lighthouse waves
-beaming, lets them go

A depression over the bay
A cyclone over the shore
Victory at sea

-Rainbows from oil slicks
-Mined, the sand.
Quaint, the myth

A monkey’s burning tail
sizzled in these waters,
turned the shore murky.

In another aftermath,
’roaches roamed
-From baygone
to survivors of the bygone

(the epitaph to which read:
they took the bait
hook, line and aye aye mate)

6th July, '07