Sitting somewhere
far from home
thoughts are a nagging child
in my village fair
It's summertime now back home
long summers of grumbling pigeons pecking
on sunrays in our courtyard.

Do you remember then, Aavantika ?
when the soil broke outside to a selfish sun
and the stray wind struck relentlessly
on our memory panes,
when sweat mingled on our tongues quenching
finally the sanity of a parched earth,
when our eyes locked up together
searched nooks
of rejoicing in the purdah of desires,
when my hands cupped behind your dupatta veil
held dampness on an arching sky...

When I first uttered words for you that were never
really spoken,
when we tread deeply in the softness of
a filtered light and flavor from the khus curtain,
when I held incessantly to your tangled hair, untoward whispers
and tender breath touches of the half moon
hidden before offering...

Do you remember then, Aavantika ?
that loving had always been a long summer,
wild in the countryside of our dreams... 

February 19, 2006

The Week of February 19, 2006      
A Kiss ... A Bliss by Sonum Bhutia 
Dew Drop by Vasanta Athilat   
Do You Remember Then, Avantika? by Dr. Amitabh Mitra 
Dreams by Shernaz Wadia 
Enlightenment by Nandakumar Nayar   
Friends by Joy A. Burki-Watson 
I Don't Love You by Mriganka Chatterjee  
Mrig-Trishna by Dr. Uma Asopa 
My Death by Harihar Rai Jha 
My Heart by Jayati Chowdhury  
Nightmares by Annu Chopra
Once...and Now by Shernaz Wadia 
Our Village by R. Purushothamarao 
Passion by Jyothi Lakshmi. B 
Precarious President by Nandlal K. Pancholi  
Smile by Sugandha Indulkar  
Sujata by Miryam Masih Nahar 
Survival by Sony Dalia 
The Inn of Mercy by Joy A. Burki-Watson
Unknown Relation by Sandhya Santoshkumar 
Upon Us by Susan Dale       

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