झोप in Poplars

we hold

                sleep’s

slackening                   string


            //

            honeyed

                           absence

holds
                                       what sleep

            //

our scramble over
                                         boulders
                          

            our cymbal


  shaking light


           
   
         red      thread

            wire tight


              rinsed


                 जागे

              cold



 Published in DISEASE, eds. Ana Seferovic and Rush Wick (London: Carnaval Press, 2022)