the angels briefly left heaven
to see where this light was coming from.

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I can't go to bed without
knowing that you have left some space between your curtains
to look after the moon
in my absence,
said the sun,
before it disappeared into the sea.

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My father tells me
seven drops of water
can settle a hiccup,
perhaps
it's the earth's
hiccups
that call for water
in drops.

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My heart soaks in blood all day,
red is the only color it knows
and yet when it sees you,
it recognizes the brown whispers hidden in between the mountains, the green music rustling through the leaves and the blue canvas above;
My heart soaks in blood all day,
beating through my thoughts,
it knows you are not red in color
and yet when it sees you,
it knows this is where I draw my red from.

~Vasanthi

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There is a wedding in my poem today,
there is a sixteen-year-old eating a tub of Ben and Jerry's over his break up,
there is a cloud that fell off the sky,
there is a new rule in the metro that bans the use of cell phones while travelling,
there is Finland making news about being the happiest country again,
there is a Dominos pizza delivery person waiting at someone's doorstep,
there is her child who smells of lego and milk, oranges and crayons waiting elsewhere,
and then
there is you
who looks like the last branch of a mango tree
reminiscing the spring and the cuckoos that sang;
and then there is you
in a sealed corner
under dim streetlight,
trying to keep the rest of the world aside
for another day,
erasing this entire poem away.

~Vasanthi

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My eyes are abducted seas,
you either fall into them
or not look at them at all,
there is no such thing as escaping,
but when they come to reclaim
these stolen waves
they will take so much of you
and so less of the seas,
for I have hidden all that worlds
that I have through my eyes
under your eyelids.

~Vasanthi

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The number you are trying to call...

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Time is an ancient folklore
that measures how many
wrinkles away
we were from love.

-Vasanthi

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