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Satish Verma

Like eating a smoked fish,
you put up bizarre questions. This is my
moon to swallow the venom.

The weary legs carry
the burden of a bruised body, breathing
still, but I feel the dead flowers of Petunias.

The bronze goddess comes
out of a temple to disperse the black days.
For you the stings will come.