Saturday, October 24, 2009

The Issue of a Singular Act

The rains erased what had been
a whole picture of you.

Reduced to myriad pieces
on the marble floor like a puzzle,

I see no single match
to light a fire inside a room.

A broken voice is insistent.

The need to act is a reaction
against the sound of tick-tock.

But the seriality of my singular act
is no match.

Am I enough?

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

El Nino comes

El Nino comes-
dry ground gets buried by
rushing flood waters.

In the calm morning

In the calm morning,
father lifts up his dead son
from the flood waters.