startling banals

27 August 2012

the crowded bus giggles
as the plump conductor
wriggles through
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23 August 2012

hot bus-stop afternoon-
the talking watch
of the blind balm-seller
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construction site child
a yellow toy truck-
infatuation
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22 August 2012

village temple-
a bus stop
for schoolgirls
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hillside hues
of yellow brown green-
more trees than men
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descending
the ghaaT road-
family of free donkeys
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through
dry dusty city-streets
the rainy mountain bus
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16 August 2012

walking backwards
away from me-
clothesline moth
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14 August 2012

awakened
by the watering of plants-
hardworking mosquito
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10 August 2012

stepping off
the thick novel-
ant
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08 August 2012

getting her hair combed-
naked on a rock
waiting
for akkaa's schoolbus
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home
is a brick kiln-
rooster
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bus route-
every day
the mountains look new
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07 August 2012

with careful steps,
descending into the drain-
scrounging roosters
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pausing to pick
the overflowing madhumaalati-
road sweeper
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