Reverberating Words( A Collaboration)

I am so grateful to Nandita for collaborating with me as I really adore her superb writings. She is truly gifted and a sweetheart.

Italics- Nandita

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Hallucinations of clock hovers my hairline

dripping ink, dripping heart

in the truths and meadows of lost adventures

I shut my eyes, thinking black and grey music

I think of Chardonnay, I think of a vintage museum

Notions of time and space breathe fire on my neck 

I exhale mists of consciousness even as I 

I am lost in my own numbness, 

I am my own Alice in Wonderland, I pinch my nakedness

Reality tastes different from what I dream 

I shut it out, I sway in the music I make

I sip the hunger of my heavy eyelids

slowly and softly, like the flow of coffins

Emancipation, Satisfaction.

I drink the ambrosia of the blood moon

The nectar driving me to a state of nirvana 

Hysteria, satiation 

The blue’s of my ink and the black’s of my mind

reminds me of those chills and strawberry summers

I draw  a map beneath my fingers, and words come out

Stagnant words, Artless words, Words.

And I put my eyes and my hands swinging now

to meet the demarcations, to meet the oblivion.

Tangerine blood caresses ivory sheets

with azure strokes of tea rose and papaya whip

whisking though, in rainforest eyes, avocado dreams

I carve out impressions on my fingertips

I watch my amorphous words 

draw shapes and patterns from my nebulous existence 

While I become a pendulum to satiate my nothingness 

©Nandita Manan Yata and MVS

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