Five Falls, Kuttralam Comments

For Veena Mitthuraman

A face not so much
an image as an after-image
the dark patch where
the sun had been before
you looked away.
The centre turning
its inside face out.

No, a long hum

Never sure afterwards
if you stood there
if you survived
if what emerged
out of the water was spectral
or what went into it.
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