Notes on a Train

Fields of waving silver grass
Heron on a shiny black boulder
A feeding buffalo.
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A man pulled out a hindi Femina and Griha Shobha
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A first sunflower bloomed in a field of swollen green buds.
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A hungry man doubled over planting with care tender green saplings in perfect rows - rice for nation's supermarkets.
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An old woman binged on cokes and ice cream diving into her wasted chest for cash.
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Two peahens joined the crows to feed off garbage dumps outside Agra.
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A herd of skinny cattle wait patiently at a railway crossing.
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He shat in their marigold fields to offend his master's Gods.
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A man's torso stood over its own inverted self - still, over still waters - to catch lunch.
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Boulders striped red and white
established the might
of Gods,
of majority's right.
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Coolies in red, recline under shades, watching in disappointment and relief, our train speeding by.
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Indigo stained buildings against blinding white fence blurring past.
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Wrinkled skin and wasted self
wrists tinkle with glass and gold
memories of youth and beauty.
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A peacock saunters through scrub forests of Andhra.
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At Choka, brazen display of gold on fire - trees aflame amongst wavey gold grasses; smokey blue mountains and orange sky, ravines plunging to black.