Reflections of reflections of reflections mirrored in the eye, I see you standing there at the water’s edge, the next minute you are gone only to reappear with the gardening shears or getting ready for work your smile gently teasing your hands reaching for mine…

Sssnake! Hissing, spitting, rearing his hoods, The five-headed snake held sway Over the Yamuna River long ago So the legends of Krishna say. Poisoning the waters, killing all Who chanced to come that way, Making life a misery for The cowherds who had long lived…

I feel the pull, hear the siren call Of books that push me into free fall, No sense of fear, or time or place In ocean abyss or the depths of space. I meet mercenaries, tyrants, a bloody pirate Delve into a psychotic mind and…

Just like a broken record My heart skips out your name Every time you cross my mind Like so many childhood games He loves me, he loves me not Daisy petals on the floor And, like a broken record, I can’t take much more Every…

Old and rusty Towering the bookshelf usually Once, writers can’t live without Now, won’t even be given a glance But this typewriter is to me A patriarch of our history A boss, a godfather a king of all who wrote of words, of poems, of…

I told the eight year-old to save the document using the square in the corner. She asked, “The camera?” I said no.   It was once called a floppy disk, but don’t worry about that now. Now, it is just a square. She asked again:…

Carved box Undervalued box Closely pushed off the walls of relevance, Over to the side of extinction. Man has find several sources of News report, & the radio is at the bottom Of the list. A very long list, candidly. Soon, no more ‘radio reports’….

I pick up this book To tell you how awesome you are. May the inks transform you into a better version of yourself. You’re more beautiful than What your reflection shows; I believe you’re the star in an empty sky, And the moon seated on…