Hair

A fantasy 

of long lustrous

layered locks is 

what makes me look

longingly at the mirror.

Hair grazing my shoulders,

    brushing against my breasts,

     caressing my hips with its silkiness:
a distant dream. Now it barely scrapes

      my neck, tickles it with coarse choppiness

         and taunts my efforts with stubborn shortness.

       I do all what granny advises: i oil my hair, comb it

    hundred times, scrape my fingernails and massage it 

        lovingly. Yet it remains frustratingly short. I wring my 

       hands at the mirror. When will heads turn as i walk 

      along? And when will men bump into each other 

   at my approach? Mommy may say i am 

  obsessed but is it wrong to desire 

  beauty? We can endlessly

 argue about this.

Waves

                                                                           Waves

                come crashing

                             on the sea shore,

                                             cleaning bare feet off

                                                        accumulated sand- grainy

                                                               and gritty. But feet keep gathering

                                                       grainy gritty sand and waves keep

                                                  crashing down the shore just to clean them.

My first calligram

My
           pen
                              posed

                                                                                                      over

                                                                                                             paper 

                                                                                                         i 

                                                                                           wonder

                                                                                 what

                                                                                 to

                                                                                write.

      .