Before the sun rises on my horizon,
an IT-types squeezes next to a farmer-types in an auto and clucks.
Men in Nike caps with upside down Ns,
read aloud ‘Welcome to Garia’ in English.
The digital clock lights up,
a dark crowded platform in red.
Speciality hospitals and English-medium Co-Ed boards,
block view.
Five hundred Anandabazars, ninety Times, a hundred Telegraph,
on the platform prepare to announce a life of social mobility –
Tennis, Roses, isms and love.
A vendor inserts splayed Sunday mags in the dailies.
As if the cacophony would hasten the dawn,
the birds persevere.
Up train downloads sewn jute bags with a blue line,
brooms, brinjals and cauliflowers.
Headloads and footboard travel.
Diploma in Fitness Management – Rs 16000/-
A man cups his plams around a match flame –
tender love for an early morning smoke.
A woman squats in steadied wait,
the shawl reveals the glowing sindoor in her hair-parting.
A tea-glass pre-heated by boiling water,
from steam-spouting kettle.
Another cup please! The dawn is delayed today.
This line perfectly reflects the pace of activity on the pre-dawn platform. It is like slesha poetry, darting back and forth between the hard and soft imagery of the loads and the blue line.
Up train downloads sewn jute bags with a blue line
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