A haunting verse by guest author Lalita Arya.…
storm
It has been ten days since the Cyclone Vardah ravaged the city of Chennai and its surroundings, but the howling sound that it came with, still resounds in many an ear. Chennai had been having less than normal rainfall this year, the year of 2016. Unlike last year when there were excessive rains, even causing floods; this year it had been the opposite. From mid October to December, Chennai usually gets rains from the North East monsoon winds. Sometimes, cyclones…
you take your eyes all the way to the storm and let me reside in it homeless have i walked roads unknown a step removed from each step unawakened eyes untried faces masks of never going all the way anywhere as if eternity were to be glimpsed from a safe and sure distance eternity. was it even sought as the sound of here grew echoing loud all echoes from every other world cut out in the dead silence where half…