A Torn Note

The moon’s last cry

Sound of lilies

Frosted in the violin

Winter nest             bleeding womb of poppies

Wail of papyrus in summer                   n o o n

The petal Book of Black

A scalpel tears

the algebra of Braille...

My shadows fall apart

Red-orange-yellow

Aflame

Thin sunlight s...i...m...m...e...r...s in rice pot

She stitches fresh roses

On dew dipped blouses

Inside hijaab          

Little tulips fight

For Spring

diaries you wrote

Still smell of camphor

Your letters sway on c-l-o-t-h-e-s-l-i-n-e

A blast somewhere

In-visible cities

Atlantis appears on your swollen skin

Tin kettle sweats of Shopian

Glossary

Hijaab – a head covering worn by Muslim women

Shopian – A small town in Kashmir also known as the Valley’s Apple Orchard

Published in Brown Boat magazine