alphonsos tip stalks.
still heads, a daring pink.
await the fall.

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in the garden of the primary school,
a peepal and banyan waltzz,
holding 3-year olds in their arms.
a summer breeze stolls by.


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loud humans.
mash, marinate, munch silence.
scar earth.


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signs in the summer morning
on koyal raga,
the koyal, from the mast tree,
requests an audience.



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the Drive and the Sea,
city-bred, city styled,
unstitch a loneliness.


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at the cracked, 19th century  sanatorium
a banyan is housed with
stoned sadhus.


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under a laburnum tree
wiping one's face on leaves.
an office rush stares.

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lightning.
sharp edged.
sky all monsoon.