the last sin   pale ashen sky a bleary eye clouds of recurring screams... i am a zoo   an octopus leviathan tentacles into an ocean of unformed emotions... syphilis and love     syphilitic pall stifles the clear blue i contort...   shell and pearl   amidst highs and lows in life's ocean flows a shell peony-mouthed...   i am an unmarried mother     fed on stings of barbed milk morality my child-plankton...   the lovers   cell upon cell bridge of their union hung on the pillars... rebirth   ogre of age and time cavil at a warm picture... the young today   innocence thaws at the altar of ambition...		bhai dhuj  her fingers tremulous as they touch his forehead with a dash of saffron her voice intones a ditty from a faraway land the chemicals in her mind play havoc with her esteem he was brutal in trying to cut her demons to size rise and shine you deserve better than pity his each word-blow reducing her further forgive me, sister  19 October 2009   Poetry Home