Letter -1955 | Ranjani Neriya

Vaya con Dios,  R.

humming darts we were, quivered close,
targeting the practice of life

blue-drunk with blight, we craved
sometimes, a draught of cyanide 

only to slap ourselves wise, rise 
to the tinctorial rapture of eventide      

with the Phillips radio spilling
the Les Paul-Mary Ford number, as

a soft white sun wheeled through
the mignonette’s orange turrets
 
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we ennobled the village lake with
our paper boat of dreams, left behind

our shadow on the wall of white sun 
heard someone erase our name, but

here we come, unfolding like a lost letter of time
to ink the dimmed space, the paleographic blot

walk the drizzly firefly-moon mosaic clime
of one more Les Paul-Mary Ford eventide.

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 Indian Review | Author Profile | Ranjani Neriya’s  poems have featured in many magazines/journals in India and the U.S. Ranjani has also published short stories and articles in Indian newspapers and magazines. The collection of Poems titled Promise- A Life – was published by Leadstart, Mumbai, in October 2013.

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Ranjani Neriya’s poems have featured in many magazines/journals in India and the U.S. Ranjani has also published short stories and articles in Indian newspapers and magazines. Ranjani’s second book of poems titled Promise- A Life – was published by Leadstart, Mumbai, in October 2013. Another book of poems — THE FLOWERING WORD TREE  –published in the U.S. by Kelsay books in 2022.