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www.the-criterion.com The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN 0976-8165 Her son’s tight-roped breath fogs zig-zag down to the shore as he igloos into the ice heart of a storm’s approach, the lake’s thick ice groaning. Butterfly tattoo near her jugular, she paces the ridge, watching. So like his distant father, she’s determined he’ll not absorb their angers. Dragging her bag of assorted echoes, she recalls a rain of touches building into layers of liquid heat, recalls how a waxing moon snipered a magnetic line between drapes. His laugh arcs up from shoreline birch. She inhales an eclipse nightly, love’s initials carved in the driftwood of time lost. Her son’s hazel eyes still follow the veined wave-crests of dreams, his skin luminous. Initials carved in driftwood Charles F. Thielman Eugene Vol. II. Issue. III 296 September 2011
www.the-criterion.com The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN 0976-8165 The stinging of hunger The rattling of batteries The former is liquid The latter is onomatopoeic Both kills Hunger turns liquid into d-r-o-p d-r-o-p thirst, thirst for power, oil, blood and water. Hunger My woman, my child & myself Lay clad in war-stripped rags. d-r-o-p d-r-o-p d-r-o-p thirst of tingling Sizzling hunger-viper entice us. We were silently gaping at the sky Our eyes wide open were protruding out of sockets. Three well-bred penises took charge of our bodies. Like towers, they grow into skyscrapers rooting them into us. We all laugh in pleasure! Oh what a pleasure! My child giggles vomiting uranium! Few yards away In my delirium I see Mother Kali standing stripped Protruding her dried tongue and her breasts wrinkled. Shiva who usually sleeps beneath her feet is missing He has gone to fetch a can of Cola. Arijit Ghosh Puducherry, India Vol. II. Issue. III 297 September 2011
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