Author Archives: montecyril

O Moon in June,  How do you flee your star-forest night?  They say you are getting more distant  Had I measured the expanse between you and me?  Yet I am filled with the vigil of Artemis  hunting me (as if I was a deer) among the queer blocks of the night-city?  though I am no shimmering cloak of dilletante appearance  I amContinue reading “O Moon in June!: A poem “

Could I still be the hidden mines in the  Straits of Hormuz, waiting to detonate  at every approach of a ship! Or the zebra in   your kitchen, turning your misbegotten culinary   into a wild rampage of upturned pots and saucers!  Or would I be Hamlet putting his sword to rest  to feed on your cheesed crackers, forgetting his Continue reading “I am sworn to Calvinist infralapsarianism; better watch out!: A poem “

I took my candour down the street, to a point  where I lost euphoria, all semblance of dignity  because the humongous blocks around the  street walked off their foundations to censure   me, take me away from myself, my dignity,  my self-esteem, my self-respect. Me, sacrificed  at the altar of fake societal norms, that built  edifices of falsities toContinue reading “I took my candour down the street!: A poem “

Do you think that we are taxidermised props  in a museum, lost to history, to posterity;  That we can’t circumnavigate the dead-ends  if they took our hedgerows, and made our gardens  also gang up against us! You know animals know  better that even after carnivores eat carnivores,  and carnivores eat herbivores; there is reckoning   beyond the acoustics of the world’s amphitheatre!Continue reading “You know there is a continuum, if there needs to be one!: A poem “