Summer Home
by Preeth Ganapathy

Paddy stalks dance with grace.
Heron streaks through a cobalt sky.
Brahminy kite nips at summer’s stillness.
Prinia rows across an ocean of air
to her favourite tower–
the jacaranda tree:
purple blossoms, leafless branches.
Eucalyptus leaves sag under the weight
of perfumed wisdom.
Glassy pond is calm.
No ripples talk, no waves glisten.
Monarch butterflies search for a home
in the summer hut of laburnum.
We search for it in the folds of bamboo-breathe,
in the scent of growth, in the light of the present.



 

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