Beyond 'the ends' and the closing lines, the characters are busy living on. They are making their beds, commuting to work, finding love, losing, reconciling or dealing with loss - coping with the last page. You get to decide, where to stop telling. The story, however, never stops.
Monday 29 July 2013
Saturday 27 July 2013
Friday 19 July 2013
Friday 10 May 2013
Would you like the rain,
if it asked before pouring?
If it was mindful,
not to dive into clothes,
drooping over the line.
Brutish blotting.
They had just about dried.
If it did not startle,
those shy fragrances,
and make them dash out,
from their earthy retreat.
If it sprayed evenly,
careful not to dig up puddles.
Or make raging seas,
for paper boats.
Would you like it
if it tip-toed past the window pane,
politely, not disturbing.
Not making drippy faces,
urging you out.
if it asked before pouring?
If it was mindful,
not to dive into clothes,
drooping over the line.
Brutish blotting.
They had just about dried.
If it did not startle,
those shy fragrances,
and make them dash out,
from their earthy retreat.
If it sprayed evenly,
careful not to dig up puddles.
Or make raging seas,
for paper boats.
Would you like it
if it tip-toed past the window pane,
politely, not disturbing.
Not making drippy faces,
urging you out.
Tuesday 16 April 2013
Visits
I have been to a place twice. Once in bustling daylight and the other,
later, in imagination. When sleep sings in slow breath and time smudges
night, I go there again. The charred souls of dying lamps, brim over to
meet the dark. Their wicks lie limp, swollen with oil and hope - pale
glistening yellow, like stained teeth. The winds sweep their burnt
slippery scents through the hollow pathways. A few flecks even reach
where the stone gods rest amongst fragrant bribes.
Monday 15 April 2013
Grown-ups
I'm fine,
how have you been?
The usual flurry, I said.
We then spoke in courtesies
and pauses.
I cut the call
realising,
that she has learnt
to mouth,
unconvincing lies,
in the fidelity of the night
and betrayal of sleep.
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