your name

your name is a peculiar
thing:

illusionist who is everywhere,
the silent demon who at night
crawls quietly into the bed of my dreams

sometimes it is a banshee
wailing the omen of so many four letter words

but what i find most striking is
when i say your name
it doesn’t leave my lips
but takes shoes off its shoes, enters the temple of my mouth

and
rings a bell

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is a student from Kerala, India. She spends most of her time reading, writing, listening to AR Rahman music and watching movies. More of her works can be found at http://allpoetry.com/Namita. She can be contacted at nktorpado@yahoo.co.in.

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Published:
Sunday, October 9th, 2011 at 12:02 am
2011 October issue, bredren and sistren, written word