When She Is Around

By Rajiv Khandelwal (October 2017)

Remy Duval, Man Ray, 1930

 

 
She a stimulating conversationalist

Mixes incidents

Tall stories

Jokes

Creates countless talking points

Sweet talks

With explosive energy

Finesse few possess

 

Time spent with her

Always

Fun

Interesting                               

Addictive

 

Addictive                               

The sound of her voice

Her facial features

Her youthfulness

Her curves                                            

All a magic tick                         

A spy-hole into dreams

 

That magically transport

Like the monologue                             

Whose energy

Earthiness

Earnestness

Catches attention

After just the initial narration  

And keeps it captured

Till the encore

Perfect

Endlessly enthralling

 

A flawless fantasy

Given Birth

Any second

Every split second                     

As a look into her arsenic eyes

Dissolves

Disintegrates

Ice-hard resolutions

Which disappear as quickly as frozen water  

In desert 

 

Nothing is

As it seems

 

When she is around

 

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Rajiv Khandelwal has published four volumes of Poetry, Conch Shells and Cowries (1998), Love is a Lot of Work and A Monument to Pigeons (both, 2013). His most recent volume of poetry, A Time To Forget, was published May 2017.
 

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