Domestic Shades 6 Poem by Indira Renganathan

White clouds above green trees
Holding the singing birds
To drum when the Lord wishes
Change to dark to pour
To the dispute of the souls on the trees
Whence the left-by birds cry to sing again

Humans are different
Any way
To talk about a person
His taste for veggies
And the recipes his way of cooking
Then the same taste of his sister
Differing from her mother-in-law very much
Changed later forcibly to her mother-in-law's taste
To impose now her indispensable change
On the beloved and the related
Who are already intolerably on thunder pour
For the concerned person in the ice-box