Crow
A conflict in the mind — Caw!
Between the spatula of feathers,
Oscilate — Nor’wester. Dust. And grammar
Notes shuffled under wings.
Black — eats up whole,
In the polythene of the belly
Yesterdays waste gurgle.
A world of microbes.
Disappearing light behind trees,
And the comets beneath —
chase a blue curtain.
Thread of jeans. Twigs. And wire mesh
Within the hemisphere of its beak,
Engineering the knots of the nest.
Ronald Tuhin D’Rozario writes from Calcutta, India
Alien Buddha Press 