Verbatim Poem by Jay Kasturi

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For him to follow her assiduously
was an act of romantic bravado
like showing off the first shadow
of hair on his pining chest;
for her to retreat obligingly,
a line from the text, not a word
added or taken out.

(1991)

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Jay Kasturi

Jay Kasturi

Kerala, India
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