Molding

Babies of yore
came with bonnets
frilly around the face

Today I saw a pink baby
with a white helmet

Adolf

I was reading The Burning baby by Dylan Thomas from Telling Stories, anthology.I did not finish the story. A line that read in it reminded me of D H Lawrence's Adolf story we read in high school.

The rabbit's head was riddled with pellets, the dogs whad torn open its belly, and the marks of a ferret's teeth were upon its throat. He lifted it gently up, tickling it behind the ears.

Its the ears, may be my text book had an illustration.

Pick Eye

How long can you let it stay in your eye?
easy to feel but not find

The search agitates the eye
more than the intruder
forgotten for the day
until the evening when
the lash sticks its one end
out like a kid
crawling out the door
in a hurry to evade
the mother

More than happy to
pick the eye
like an expert
without
the help of a mirror

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Pick your ear - Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking - O. Henry

Repoussoir

Concentric circles
of dried minerals
into the bowl
on its first day
of being a bird bath

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Aldegrever Heinrich - Joos van Cleve - Jachim Patinir - Repoussoir
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Encyclopaedia

Olympia Marblewing

Note this steno's
antennae
a modern mic
her sparse stole
how pure to reflect
fresh white petals
and green sepals
that she lands on

A zebra swallowtail egg

A tiny green grape
so small
that its spherical

A Pudin Hara pearl

A sweater button

In it is encoded the
recognition of pawpaw
leaves

Bird bands

of different sizes
next to each other
like measuring cups
of 100ml, 200ml, 500ml, 1l, 2l
of an Indian milkman
or an oil grocer

Young clothespin

How old is migration?
Older than its first viewer.
Everything has a time stamp
A banded bird
Its band

Radiometric dating
Fossils

Sails down

She sat on a bench           Black Crowned night heron
still in grey         stood fixed like a statue

a flock of birds             In its dormant time
could have made             the heron was no good
her move with them            to distract when its even
to the next thought             hard to notice

Some wind pushed her to move on while the heron stuck to its ground

As the post

beneath

the cormorant
extends itself
on the roosting board
like a wicker on fire
in a lantern
tuned to its
brightest

Another great week at Jube School! Stay tuned for our next animal lantern creation! #jubeschool #lanterns #puppets #wolf #buffalo #yycarts pic.twitter.com/w09P1Xyy2T

— Green Fools Theatre (@GreenFools) October 26, 2018

The stilts

stand ankle deep
in the still water
all in the same direction
anticipating waves to wash
them off their feet

On the back of an envelope

Writing down
  ingredients
    for a Pistachio
      cake from yellow mix

for the ones
  at the grocers
      and at home

What does club soda
  do in a cake with a box
    of pistachio pudding in
      and another on top

Following another envelope
  will take us there
    to a mountain top
      pinnacle peak

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Format from Invitation poem from "Red Bird Poems by Mary Oliver"

Threshold half way up

A stocky wooden door
placed sideways
on the wall
like a frame

On a close look
I recall a
huge cuboid log
that slides from the
inside from the wall
on one side of the
door to the other
to hold the
door halves

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Cafe Krishna, Chandler

The Spectrum

of varying colors
on the steps
at Nukus Art Museum
coaxes you to find
a lateral pattern
while moving up

Enigma of languages

Everyday morning, in high school I awaited for the language classes, happy with the last days homework. When I moved to the high school, all the Telugu I would learn was done. All the later classes had what I had already learnt. I think it was this reason, that gave the chance for experimenting. The homework consisted of using words in forming sentences. Around the same time I got into Hindi class, I had just learnt the letters, while the rest of the class was way ahead. I cried in the class, when I didnt understand the words.
Once we get comfortable with the basics,then there are possibilities!!