Poems | Pratheesh Ramachandran

Eclipse

Broken pot
In the backyard

Clouds, wind and the waning
Moon within

Resonating my breath
On its surface
An eclipse in water

Wet

Swimming across the river
I bring back home

Smell of the mangroves
Fish and oysters

Drifts along the whole night
My raft,an insomniac

Name

Wild doves made a cleft
Peeling dusty skin of
An abandoned car’s windshield

Thus entered the light

I woke with swollen eyes deep from
A thousand year’s sleeplessness
Doves stayed at the other end of time
Their cries never reached in

Sipping the light of my ancient death
I inscribed on the glass wall

My strange name

Pratheesh Ramachandran is a bilingual poet and artist. He has published three poetry collections in Malayalam language.Poetry installations recently featured in GUFTUGU. Poems have been appeard in Glasgow review of books, Ink sweat and tears, Raum, The Bombay Review and Losslit. He Lives and works in kerala, a southern state of India