Friday, December 9, 2011

Death of a Writer

The following poem is written by Arundhati Balakrishnan, it was printed in Yamuna's 83rd Volume.


Amid the withered spiral notes

And a heap of thoughts

Lay the body of the writer.

Words were still dripping

From his broken nib

Like blood

From

A raw vein.

The ants from the old story

Were coming

To grab the curvature of

His letters,

Moist from the stain of

His memories.

They kept it

For a future,

scarce of

dreams and hope.

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