Shikhandin Shikhandin Poems

It Has Been There All Along

An old anger glints with lust
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New Winter

I have grown unused to this
tightening of skin,
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The Church

Every time I close my eyes
I see a bright white Church
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She would cycle down everyday
and bother us till we
did her summer vacation homework for her.
She would try to dazzle us with
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Pandora's curiosity didn't just do her in
It dug a cesspool for the whole human race
For what flew out
After the locust swarm of ills
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Our brother's come home
let us rejoice. He has come bearing unwrapped
gifts and untold stories while we circle
around him like a chant.
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You talk of hatred, bullets, bombs
and bad memories. Here
we inherit these things
from our fathers and mothers, who
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Once upon a time, long, long ago, the humble
home-made papad could actually become foreign-returned
‘pepper biscuits' with a simple flick of a wrist opening
a manila envelope. Madras Checks flipped outright
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You throttle it
into permanent un-speak-ability
then you bury it
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There is this ‘I' in it, right at the beginning,
an ‘I' for an ‘I' that is you. But of course, you are
your own inspector and spectator.
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