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 Priyadarshi
Patnaik
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
IIT Kharagpur
Sunlight climbs up...
Sunlight climbs up the tulsi chawra
Shadows dark pencil shades
The cock crows irritably in the late morning
My wife's grandfather takes in the sun
His 80 year old wrinkles yellow and warm
Waiting for nothing in particular
My father-in-law sits on the verandah
Cantankerous loud angry-voiced fighting
The world in his high-BP harmless high
In the morning the village fills slowly
With old people who have stopped aging
And the very young who're growing up fast
The pigeons sitting on the thatches make love-sounds
In the golden sunlight of my childhood dreams
Which jump out of my head playful kittens
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