1.
The mind creates
withdrawn to its own pleasures
a green thought
behind the banyan tree
behind the flickering lust

2.

Age seems to stop
for a while in sexact
a running horse
***** and heavenly
white as a lightning

3.

Their minds
hallowed in the borrowed sun
joyous in hate
celebrate emptiness
of the ****’s *******

4.

The lane to temple
through foul drain, dust and mud:
black back of Saturn
in a locked enclosure
a harassed devotee

5.

Not much fun—
cold night, asthmatic cough
and lonely Christmas:
no quiet place within
no fresh start for the New Year


--R.K. SINGH