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Sonnet in Elliptical Orbits

Snoozing under the Brownian tree near the path (not
 yellow, but brick in an interlocking pattern, something
like herringbone), spending an hour and a half or so
in a sleepy rural train station, piles of building tiles
just outside the door. Counter-intuitive measures all
around, grapes purple, almost black. And garlic chutney
*vada pav* for all of us, just to see the vampires stayed
away. Having wanted to visit Madras before we died,

we hurried back the way we'd come, clambering over
rocky outcroppings, stopping only rarely to examine
the life in the ponds and cesspools we came upon.
Tilting ourselves over, we saw them there, the crawly,
creepy things in their green sauce, eying us beadily
eying them eying us eying them eying us eying them.


Hal

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