after Louis Armstrong
at Tate
i stand in front of a
cardboard sea
where
Kandinsky’s gouache
leaks
asides my mother’s face
a crackle
of seeds
peck
the wind in Gaza
today Andy bends
again the
stars fell on
Alabama
for
his daughter
who cries
with open palms
no radiation
no war
just a field of white
.
Debasis Mukhopadhyay
.