Teesta Review: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 2, Number 2. November 2019. ISSN: 2581-7094
How to Save Time Counting Letters
There was uncertainty about
the number of keys in the typing pad.
Narratives had happened
before:
They were not about languages or
multiplications.
Unicorns and dinosaurs were
not part of the mathematical operation:
How to save time counting letters.
The story got lost in the
questions,
In the arithmetic of answers.
“There will be” and “there
won’t be” became mute.
There had been a fountain
pen
An
alchemy of experiences
A hundred and eight oaks
A certainty of
deers.
And a piercing echo of “how to save time counting
letters”.
And now there is a flowing
void,
A post-human
somersault written in limited characters,
A legend that became lost in the quest for
implementation.
Break the Proscenium
A character leaves the stage, aggrieved.
“Audience, please behold!”
[Silence, clapping and a new act]
Allegoric animals appear, bustling.
“Make sense!”
[Exasperation, mumblings and a frozen scene]
A wound becomes centre, liminal.
“Destiny, intertwine!”
[Some walk out, some embrace the borderless
palimpsest]