Notes - II

Notes - II

1.

Abrupt breeze
Inside the heart
Of this tungsten evening,

Voices of love
Across time’s storylines,

Supergod breathes upon the ellipse
Of your memory

Lunar triangles awaken now.


2.

The noiseless call,
The white opera,

I hear.

In the temple of the Buddha,
All be free,

In his electric house,
All be music.

I hear.

In a violet cadence,
The hills throb.

3.

Night and rains,

Dust from another city
Becomes alive,
A room of indigo animals.

You measure the pace
Of my love,
With a gauge on your tongue.

Sunshine lungs,
Street song diaries,

I touch
Your hand, fierce angel;
Won’t you tremble?


4.

[ on a bandh day ],

The stores are mostly closed,

Parlours with pretty names
Stare into an empty world,

One or two half-opened shutters
Of shops
Which sell cigarettes;

The stillness of murder and protest
Is broken by children,

The thud
Of an orange soccer ball,
And cricket on wild afternoon slopes.

I wander around
Under a gold sky
With a camera,
By churches, newspapermen
And rough graffiti,

I can’t find a place to buy dinner.

5.

Haze and I,
The house where flowers grew,

The house which breathed
In slow movements
Of the stars,

Now it rains, now the jade fairies go crazy
And celebrate
The birth of love with rice;

Suleiman is speaking to jinns again.