Claustrophobic in an ochre puddle | Kalyani Bindu

Beneath the ochre puddle
of my daily tea
(claustrophobic aqua-soul
in a glass cage),
fishes flit
like motorcycle mirages
over fluid-mirror roads,
mouthing urgent prayers,
tailing one another,
spiralling into
demented circles- like insomniacs,
imploding my reality-
an insomniac, an aqua-soul,
claustrophobic in an ochre puddle.

I am Kalyani Bindu, an aspiring biologist working as a project assistant at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. I’m also a writer and have forayed into poetry, fiction and socio-cultural essays. In 2012, Sign Books (Thiruvananthapuram) published a collection of my poems titled “Two moviegoers and 32 others”. And, I’ve also written a couple of articles for the bilingual web magazine “White Crow Art Daily”.