Wednesday, April 2, 2025

everlasting city, everlasting heart

 

walk ahead. the vastness will swallow me

windows unfurl sun into empty harems.

making a wish, consuming some apparition of a glorious past.

maintain me. keep me from decay. touch me where a thousand have before


reading statistics - there is 6400 times more fecal matter than the recommended limit in the yamuna under the taj mahal. i suppose some fecal matter is always recommended in river water


walk ahead. i’ve got calluses that nothing can repair 

we’ll find passages of survival, ways to ride out the impasse

when the morning sun squints down on the sandstone tower

we need a benevolent emperor to kiss us alright 



written on a trip to agra


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