Prabhakar Subramaniam Poems

The day kept awake
Well into the night
Its residue still glowed
Like a too-bright lamp
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They made an icon
Of the iconoclast
Raised statues
For him
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As I pace the terrace
In the cover of the night
I guiltily think
Of the hours
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Every dawn I invoked
The smell of rain
When I doused the frontyard
I swept free of yesterdays
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When I get up to leave
My friend's labrador
Who has taken to me
Leaps ahead, without any prompting,
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She kept hidden
In the kitchen
Behind pots and pans
The alien deity she had taken to
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I remembered her as one
Who did not want to be a nun
With other classmates
I had gone to her house
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I'm happy with you
Because you do not
Tell me how well I would look
If I had a straighter nose
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I used to wear
A cricket cap everywhere
Even when I had stopped
Putting bat to ball
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For someone from
An orthodox family
With strong food taboos
She was strangely
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