Friday 4 July 2014

Post-Rain Check

After the rain
you want to go and see
if the dewdrop balanced between the end of the stem and the beginning of the leaf
marked present by the erstwhile clear morning sky
is still there.
You want it to live.


First published in Muse India, Jul-Aug 2014.

2 comments:

Tomichan Matheikal said...

So simple yet so sweet. There's something that enchants about these few lines.

ankita said...

It's joyous to the writer when a reader can also relate to the image that meant something to her.

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