Thanks to all those who wrote in to say hi. I am posting three poems here on the assumption that people will come up with comments and thoughts about them. Just a bit about how I write: I taste my words before I use them; roll them over on my tongue because words are, like all of us know, seductive things. I read poems the same way. Tell me what you think�
Nitoo. Three poems: (I) Letter from Ramabai to her Husband Beloved, I'm tired and this drying body remembers the crane- white of your nails tonight. The widows come in limp droves everyday and my ears scorch with their words. Today, Shanta told me "They gave me powders to choke my daughter." Her hands kept fluttering to her head as if to touch dream hair. Sometimes at night I see my brother's ghost and we still roam and wail with hungry bellies and tongues painted purple with sour berries and my bloated child-belly carries Manorama kicking and clawing inside me. Beloved, it rains outside and termites have grown wings to search for frail lovers. Soon they will lose them and tomorrow I will see whispered wings squashed to the ground. ********** (II) Proust broke this vase A vase it was, perhaps a tumbler or an urn or maybe a humbler pot with a tongue -fern, a scratched burn. And Proust broke it broke it broke it into scarred shards sharp mirror-carp shapes that flashed and turned. Grapegreen and winged bean scenes clustered in a museum box glassed in pride and we gaped seduced by the idea of Proust's clumsy hands that had killed a mocking vase. ********** (III) When I went over to the other side� I think it was you I saw crouching behind that leaky amaltas tree. You were doubled over with want and never saw me dribble my love onto your face. You just swayed and flailed, ignored my nipple clamps, my elk cracker kisses and smelt the bristly yellow of hawks aching in the dark. *********** PS: Shivam, no worries. :) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/yqIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Did you get this mail as a forward? Subscribe by sending a blank mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], OR, if you have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/join. Members are encouraged to post poetry, their own and others', respond critically to the poems circulated, and participate in discussions. Post via email at [email protected] OR online at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/post. ---theZESTcommunity-------------- [1] ZESTCurrent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCurrent/ [2] ZESTEconomics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTEconomics/ [3] ZESTGlobal: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTGlobal/ [4] ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ [5] ZESTPoets: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ [6] ZESTCaste: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ [7] ZESTAlternative: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTAlternative/ [8] TalkZEST: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkZEST/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
