Poem 3
TWIN BRAZIERS
Some more communications are added
by the twin braziers
in the tang of contrasts—
black and red hooked around the
white grille bars.Skinned like two leopard skins.
Tautly, not too tautly,
but like a young skin basking in the sun to get tanned.It is the pair of black braziers,
all young and black and taut.
Not that taut,
but brazenly hanging.
Not hanging or slumping or taut,
but getting further tanned
or tanning the white of the grille of the house gate
opening on the public road.It appears sometimes
the braziers would overwhelm
the serpentine roads and its travelers.Or maybe
the travelers of the road would be crushed
by that rowdiness.What is the red pair of soft baby-socks
doing in between?
In between the stiff contrast of blackness
and whiteness—in between the road and the gate?
Arun Gaur
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