Sleeper Class: Bangalore-Delhi and Back

Outcrop of rocks-
peacocks.

Herons line
industrial slime.

green parakeets
green groves
of green mangoes.

Midget fort
dilapidated, camouflaged
on a midget rock .

Decapitated trees
in pyramids.

A stone in pious orange
under a scraggly tree
-middle of nowhere.

Brilliant bougainvillea
blazing
in vast arid land.

Fat tyre tracks meandering
all over barren land-
playing? hunting?

The gait of a goatherd.
slow, swinging, free.

pale green on pale gold
and chocolate land-
sugar fields.

Orange clouds,
lit from below
in violet sky.

First showers -
neon greens shade
grey and gnarled.

How to dare, to care?

Bent men, harsh sun,
small hammer,
breaking mountains.

Boulders on a barren land -
a flock of seated goats.