"Missing Us"One by one
Unpacking the cartons
Polishing this Ming vase (it is!)
Reinstating that wrought-iron candle stand
A few Matrioshkas and lacquer stuff
(You know how I care for old Russian art)
A hand-painted tea coaster – my caper –
Unwrapping them sparks a smile, at last
Moth balls rolling off a coat
I barely used last winter
Magazines he’d throw, I’d save
For garden instructions on better tomatoes
Undoing gossamer cobweb from the corners
Before life is installed back in
That unlived living room, on the yet-to-be cluttered
Dresser. This indeed was like courting
Emptiness, he said, before I came back home.
Unpacking the cartons
Polishing this Ming vase (it is!)
Reinstating that wrought-iron candle stand
A few Matrioshkas and lacquer stuff
(You know how I care for old Russian art)
A hand-painted tea coaster – my caper –
Unwrapping them sparks a smile, at last
Moth balls rolling off a coat
I barely used last winter
Magazines he’d throw, I’d save
For garden instructions on better tomatoes
Undoing gossamer cobweb from the corners
Before life is installed back in
That unlived living room, on the yet-to-be cluttered
Dresser. This indeed was like courting
Emptiness, he said, before I came back home.
Image from the Internet
7 comments:
My God Nabina... this is a masterpiece.
It is only in the last lines that the reader discoveres that it is not 'you' talking...
And the feeling describes is pure! wah... dil khush ho gaya...
super!!!
Christina Brooks likes this a lot...
Like the last line too. Touching to be from a mans perspective.
There's always something in your thoughts..
TS, thanks for that fine reading! Makes my day!
Gul, you are sweet!
Chris, glad you like it!
Mys, long time no see. Happy you find my work useful...! Please keep visiting. I'll visit you too.
wah ustad wah ... this sure is awesome. I love the fact that it was not "you" talking this time. super duper. Muaaah
Tiku! I bow to thee...:)
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