Swetal Bhatt Memory Flashes:Spindly Branches At the top of a tree Sway in the wind And scratch the belly Of the sky Brick Chimney Next to the house Why did they paint it white? It looks so cold Next to the snow Forgotten Room At the back of the house With peeling posters of the era gone by And the broken guitar That faint chord A Dozen Blackbirds In a field behind a school Peck at the mottled grass Early in the morning It must have rained yesterday
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