The Beggar Girl
Written & Narrated by Asha Viswas
India
The Beggar Girl
I look into her eyes , troubling me ,
like a question mark.
The red in them is a mythical sea
full of drunken fish pursuing the stars .
Or is it the red of carnations
blooming in a thorn bird’s heart ?
The sunlight dances , like rainbow , in her eyes
which speak in some shade of green
You fail to describe . It is close
to a dark storm with blue rain .
The pressure for description
is memory lurking from pain.
I take courage
and swim across the eyes .
The Misunderstanding
Written & Narrated by Asha Viswas
India
The Misunderstanding
i was learning the grammar of his face
in the sentence
of his body.
paraphrasing the clauses
of his looks,
analysing his gestures
synthesizing his moods.
seeking synonymy
of chemistries,
and proximity of physic(s)
but he saw
a deeper semantics
and a newer meaning
in my voice
and meanings.
he raised a big structure
of surface
ambiguities
that left us unfortunate
parallel lines.