Becalmed
Suspended in brackish undulations
Dunes shield this lagoon speculation
From seething currents

With intermittent vision tinted sepia
Apeborn questions exerting rigid apertures
Hinted insights rose unfurling thorns
Reason never deeply touching you
How incrementally are humans
Ever so defective
Instruments of
Truth

Sultry days
Lustrous beads
Drip from hanging papaya
Glistening like
Amber teardrop earrings

Amid the rubble
Of four dim millennia peeled back
A square of carved steatite lay
Lifted
Gently as a gossamer hope
To reveal
That mythic beast
A single horn curving
From its striated head
Whose fame reached Grecian ears
From Indus bed
Across miles & years
Leaving an inkmark murmur

All felt the fable
Dwindle & swell
The swindle whispered
Into every eyeball
The tramelled multifarious
Steady steady
Soft sell
Who'd fall for that
We say
As it settles down to dwell
In our depths & recesses
Tales of decline & progress
Denied

The summer stretched out
Languorous
Lissome
A stray cat
Sunning itself
In possibilities