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www.the-criterion.com <strong>The</strong> <strong>Criterion</strong>: <strong>An</strong> <strong>International</strong> Journal in English ISSN 0976-8165<br />

I feel the quake<br />

in my abdomen.<br />

<strong>The</strong> city crumbles<br />

over its abandoned lanes.<br />

<strong>II</strong><br />

<strong>The</strong> million men army,<br />

<strong>The</strong> intruders on an island<br />

Cheat in the dark<br />

Slay the other<br />

and drip out.<br />

<strong>The</strong> dead men's sea<br />

Drops of holy white.<br />

Oozing cleft from the<br />

inner courtyards<br />

of the temple shrines.<br />

I<br />

My city,<br />

with its map less contours,<br />

spread like a dissected frog<br />

breathe heavily<br />

over passions fed.<br />

Kisses uprooted<br />

in the desert storm,<br />

By-lanes of her body<br />

fade in the sandbanks<br />

of he-sweat.<br />

Bosoms dissolve<br />

for the sprouting volcanoes,<br />

That hiss venom<br />

For the life to be.<br />

<strong>II</strong>I<br />

Passion is sin<br />

Red Sea<br />

Lakshmi Priya<br />

Kerala, India<br />

<strong>Vol</strong>. <strong>II</strong>. <strong>Issue</strong>. <strong>II</strong>I 302 <strong>September</strong> <strong>2011</strong>

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