‘A Claim to Dawns’: Two Poems by Carol D’Souza
Poetry: ‘it pools around my ankles most days / But now, onwards! To the elixir of evening tea’
Thursday
Pulled up my mood by its scruff
Elastic gone loose worse than my old sock,
it pools around my ankles most days
But now, onwards! To the elixir of evening tea
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Variations on Navaneeth’s Advice During a Card Game
Calvino on a winter’s night
stakes a claim to dawns,
and dawns only
The cheek to want
from stories, from love
only the beginning
Like Darwish. Like Shahid
Put the biggest heart you have
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Carol D'Souza is a writer and translator from Bangalore. A collation of her work can be found at linktr.ee/cblaizd.
