It Is It is the singularity of black holes a swarm of hummingbird hawk-moths the insatiable hunger of caterpillars smile of a camel, song of a nightingale the moon frail as the edge of a fingernail – It is dirty as a clam, economical as ants dark as a pocket, convenient as money nervous as a squirrel, close as a box turtle an ostentation of peacocks, a siege of herons – It is hardy as grass, fragile as a tiger words sleeping between the covers of a book a fanatic hiding his doubt, a sceptic his faith – It is an unkindness of ravens, an exaltation of larks the spitefulness of philanthropists, a plague of poets – It is none of the above.
Shanta Acharya’s latest poetry collections are What Survives Is The Singing (2020), Imagine: New and Selected Poems (2017), Dreams That Spell The Light (2010). Her doctoral study, The Influence of Indian Thought on Ralph Waldo Emerson, was published in 2001 and her novel, A World Elsewhere, in 2015. www.shanta-acharya.com
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