Sunil Sharma- A Poem

Fizz

Images are coxed out

of reluctant words

sometimes gently; sometimes forced.

then they  get washed and spruced up

strung up like a----------------Or,

D

O

W

N

in a vertical order by a writing hand.

some call it poetics; some creative process

of ads,

ways of arranging/looking at the world a-new.

Words often act as the grim-faced colonial gaolers

refusing to part with the radicals under their custody

but when cracked by a saboteur… powerful images flow up like CO2

out of soda cans that are opened for special guests

in the middle-class Indian homes.

Bio: Sunil Sharma is a writer based in Mumbai, India.He has published four books of poetry, two books of shorts and a novel in English,apart from co editing six literary anthologies.