Every moment
Take a magazine
(anything will do)
and throw it out of your window
on its spine;
watch:
how it sways in the free air…
Now!
Forget it. Now
watch:
the flutter of its pages
as they take wings
and cut a steep parabola
to
the
trash-
not yet!
yes, watch again:
the flutter of its pages as they take wings and cut a steep parabola-
the plunge creating plumage
out of printed words
to
the
trash-
-can below.
Poet’s Bio: Shriram Sivaramakrishnan is an eternal lover of ‘things in between’, roads less travelled, emotions seldom expressed, moments forever lost, words constantly overlooked.
Illustration by Alan Van Every (Featured image on the front page)