Straight black jacket and black dervish cap
Knit eyebrows, the steady quizzical eyes
The veteran of the wind discipline winding
Lazy, straight or lightning swift at will.
Flanking behind the two younger sibling cats
Bend ornamental traceries, or subdue
The demon of sound, held down to willed obedience.
Beside him the magician of the finger drums
Patterns out the geometric landscape. ...more

a few days only
you filled my home with your flutter
your hop, chirp, trust and companionship
where the present tries to perch with its claws
clinging to thin air ...more

Kumu
Master of the half-withered branch
I went to see his paintings. ...more

As we went about on this side of life
A glistening silver line appeared
And Samarda slipped quietly through the crack ...more

I heard the rumbling of the dragon
The rattling of the thunderseeds
In the box that's shaken repeatedly
By a feminine hand.
...more

Hip cats walk the bombay streets. Experts of the cool man language. The chillim talk. Hybridized with the vernacular (bom shombhu) ...more

avanti used to say that while the birth of modernity in the west
was premised on the death of god
the birth of modernity in india
which was simultaneously the birth of its nationalism
was premised on the birth of god.
yes it is true in more ways than one;
...more

You came to and left the earth. At a time of time compression. Like a glint in the eye of the cyclonic depression. Over the Bay of Bengal. ...more

nature and culture
mind and body
warp and woof
in the weave of the visible ...more

In invisible streaming of capital virtuality screams
burning with overdose.
Multisensory Matter transmuting careens
towards the fourth dimension.
Yeats hardly knew
what he was paying homage to
when he desired immortality in Byzantium. ...more