Alone, in the hot kitchen, she wants to be
locked inside
an old song, echoes
from another life;
sung by Ma, in a humid kitchen, on lonely nights; the
lyrics
about a prince and a farmer’s dusky maid without dowry, a distant castle,
with
a scheming queen;
sometimes, the changed lyrics,
hummed above the boiling oil and a whistling cooker, cutting
veggies with a mechanical hands, Ma singing of a nebulous region in a fluffy space decorated with stars, the blue space, illuminated by a
full moon spilling milk over sleeping earth; a rabbit
with conical hat upright on spindly legs, guiding a solitary gypsy,
without her caravan, in a dim forest; the words creating a place
where forms mutate, form, deform, reform into enchanting islands,
lapped by
the lapis-lazuli waters lying languid; lagoons and rocky shores,
rolling waves, kissed
by
the circling gulls and birds, ecstatic
in
their freedom, coordinated flights across the
choppy seas and skies threatening tempests.
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Sunil Sharma
Picture Nick Victor
Bio: A humble word-worshipper: catcher of elusive sounds, meanings and
images. Published 28 creative and critical books— joint and solo.
A winner of, among others, the Panorama Golden Globe Award-2023, and,
Nissim Award for Excellence-2022 for the novel Minotaur.
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