satishverma

CANNOT HOLD

Got struck on the spiky gate 
a half-eaten deer 
shattering the panther. 

Daggers were drawn. 
Terrier was in the glass house. 
Canine discretion to draw the blood 
between friends. 

A crisp murder of a terrorist. 
spotted face of the relentless moon 
sending flames to jasmines. 

The little skulls popping up 
amongst rumors. 
I scream in a celestial leap. 

I could walk in ruins 
of incarnations 
preaching for death.

Satish Vermal