WINTER RAIN
Dr. V. V. B. Rama Rao
Hastina
has green lungs-
Bitumen topped paths between
Long high tree-line promenades
Washed trodden mashed
Leaves wet yellow and even green
Swishing under walker’s morning feet
Searing freezing breeze
Sieved through flannel sleeves
-lungs attract aggressors, transgressors
Tikrit-holed mouse or mongoose
Hunted slyly but noisily
Wins abhorrence or, who knows, admiration!
Who the aggressor and who the aggressed?
Cerebration is sickening
Haystack is found in the needle
Would it sting
Or, gone blunt and rusty,
Be broken into two?
-Honks a “L” hung vehicle
-Continue I the walk
-Hands folded into the armpits for warmth.