BEYOND THE CLIQUE

Dignity of knife in hope or fright 
cuts the outer edge of desire.Huddled 
anxiety oversees the fringe bites 

of comforts. The child you abandoned 
on road becomes a tree I nurtured. 
A leafy town grows in the calyx of capricious 

impermanence. Calisthenics permeates the 
vibrations in foxgloves.Dragonflies become 
vulnerable in feckless shadows of eyes. The 

lithe body metastasizes into a mausoleum, 
you adore. A tiger mauls a gift of bed. 
Your whispers start hissing for intrusion. 

A pilgrim of negation raises a non-belief, 
creates a stimulus to bestow an endless 
pain in summation of all night.

Satish Verma