Neem-chameli! How have you been?
Long time (short lane) no see
I am late again just another day
Sun marks me absent I will compensate
in the evening if moon is kind enough
to take extra classes for me.I still look the same, you say!
But you have changed you never used to
fall at my feet like
a knock on the hollow street.I pick up the phone the wireless volatile
extension of a phantom-limb sensation
fragrant and hold
all along the road
in my hand left gently you might
hang up on me.A dialogue develops with the dial-tone
as now I keep you balanced a diagonal to my collarbone
The other clavicle eavesdrops
further down,The benches like buildings and ground
of safety-pins pin a belt going around
the waist to make the two ends meet
somewhere in the middle.A telephone-vase
Stalks of digits like fingernails
trim-ring trim-ring trim-ring.
11/12/20