THE SULK

Lapis lazuli: 
like a crazy theme of 
hostile doctrine, 
spawning a fierce battle 
of bulge. 

It was scary 
like a scrawny lizard 
climbing on the breasts. 

The hoarse retreat of the arm, 
when the lamb did not 
squeal under the machete. 

Poking in frozen mud, 
to find the footprints of a mammoth, 
when trees were bleeding.

Satish Verma