brooding
over my dog’s…
Author: Kala Ramesh
Kala Ramesh co-edited the award winning Naad Anunaad: an Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku (Vishwakarma Publication 2016) and co-authored an e-book with Marlene Mountain one-line twos (Bones 2016). She is the author of two books: haiku (Katha Books 2010, reprint 2017) and beyond the horizon beyond (Vishwakarma Publication 2017) and a tanka e-chapbook unseen arc (Snapshot Press 2017).
Kala's initiatives culminated in founding IN haiku in 2013. She teaches haiku and allied genres at Symbiosis International University Pune. To bring haiku into everyday spaces, Kala initiated HaikuWALL, haikuTRAIL, haikuTALK, haikuWORKSHOP, haikuYOUTH, haikuUTSAV, haikuDHYANA and haikuSAATSANGATH, the last being a stage performance with dancers and actors.
Gita chanting birds become…
humpback whale!
for a split-second…
patina
on dancing Shiva
… who am i
a falling leaf
gives…
notes trickle
down a riverbed…
mountain trek
my steps ringed…
I am
the city
twice born
imprisoned… thunderclap —
the…
an eagle shadows a wheat …
monsoons begin with each…
the darkness of my skin on…
The Look
Two or three…
blossoms . . .
the dog leap-curves…
after sunset
mountains…
her plait in step …
how little
I know …
midnight jetty
the sound…
an evening
of tangled thoughts…
Gita chanting —
as…
male gaze the female in me…
twilight trees
birds go …
liquid sky . . .
a steel bucket…
ceiling mirror
between …
white water rafting
we spin… slipping in
beneath the …
painting class
children…
dense fog
the train evaporates…
the wind howling horizon…