queue for darshan–
she mumbles her prayers
at a roadside puddle
Author: A. Thiagarajan
A postgraduate in English, A. Thiagarajan taught in colleges in India, before joining the finance sector. He has been writing in English and Tamil since college days. His work (poems, haiku, short-stories and articles) has appeared in various magazines and ezines, radio etc. He lives in Mumbai, India.
Email: thiag at vsnl dot com
as the light changes
I rush across pulling
the wrong woman
under construction-
the carpenter’s wife sleeps
in my bedroom
sudden drizzle
a mosquito takes off
from the paper boat
on my lip
again and again
the same fly