The biography to bathA Poem by Ayyappan MoolesserilA Shore cut in sunshine its stairs rubbed in slime Down,Stumping lips ‘mmuwe mmuve’, draping noise into the actions of a moving bubble- silently imitated is the journey called a fish. Obstructing the stillness of sunshine, continentsof slime search for its ways through the stream The gum of apple snail sticks to the slime of coconut trunks just behind the ground fence made of mud. so to sepetate water and its banks,On the knee-deep sunken foot space, from the dripping towel, are puddles drowning of knitted symbols. Floating up, across the ear hole- is a net woven by depths. A medium called vibration that traps even the faintest of sound Its love for air that might break even at an unmoving tremble. Turning back,is a shore cut in sunshine and its stairs rubbed in slime A hand that drains wet hair wthout touching the shadow of a guava tree, like tiers of a triangle. Seven colours those bloomfrom last foam of the bathing soap. Shades settling into whites even before describing them not to a rainbow And a sea that is lonesome. © 2019 Ayyappan Moolesseril |
StatsAuthorAyyappan MoolesserilEdinburgh, Leith, United KingdomAboutAyyappan Moolesseril. Ayyappan Moolesseril was born and raised in Kerala,India. Now he lives in the Scottish Highlands with his charming solitude, a medium-sized diary, and a box of pencil colors.H.. more.. |