What to look for in winter

Ghirlandaio Tobias
Toff
A Dance to the music of time
A Flat iron for a farthing
The sword in stone
Dunbar
The tao of sketching
Predella
Finial
Acroterion
Cuisenaire
pawky
The Lay of the last minstrel
epilimnion
Myxomatosis
Ruddigore
The heat of the day
one hundred details
Rokeby Venus
The school of love
Art for children
Thurifer
Point counter point
Harl
Seven pillars of wisdom
woad
Galope
The Quest for Corvo
Ronald Firbank
What maisie knew
ruby parure
The soul of the eye
The Israelites gathering Manna
Bargello
Termagant
Ved Mehta
Stephen Kuusisto
Holman hunt
The crofter and the laird
Loderi
Indumentum
Fuchsia
Escallonia
Pimpinellifolia
Pianola
Philadelphus
James Kelman
couthie
Against nature
Hortensia
Cymbidium
quailed
Manchineel
Hollywood Babylon
Balletomane
Bakst
Ormolu
Leger

Patterns

At the threshold of
Indian households
you found floral
patterns laid out
in thin white
lines of a powder.

Now they use chalk pieces
colourful
Earlier they added colours
to the powder for
auspicious occasions
like Sankranti.

Enter a new gadget
A platic tube with
perforations by purpose
Fill it with the powder and roll
it on the floor
for the pattern you desire
and for however long you wish to
encompass your veranda

Like a lullaby
for a baby that repeats
till the baby sleeps

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'My mother in law had threaded jasmine and marigold ropes and set in shaken chalk auspicious designs all around the preimeter of the house' What to look for in winter

What is an apple?

My mother wonders
if I remember putting
the question myself
and answering as a child
'It is round and red'.

My nephew as a child
had a face of an
apple

Stains

of baby's poop at the pediatrecian
milk let in on the dress
multivitamin drops overflowing from
the baby's mouth onto mom

Hate Cauldron

Mourning becomes Electra

An out and out tragedy of helplessness of characters having to part from their apple of the eye. The death is in them from that moment. They are ready to put their whole life into hating the souls responsible for shattering their dream.

The span of time for which the portrayal of the characters is done makes it easy on reader's imagination, making it sequential and even the slight movements conspicuous.

5/5

More baby

Her 3 big center
eyelashes coupled
from the above and
below

Her hands never stay
in the swaddle
Her left hand is
on her face like
in the ultrasound

Baby

When asleep she makes
a noise that
she has had enough
When nursing she opens
her eyes to confirm
that its ok with mom
she also looks around
shyly if anyone
is watching her.