Anam Tariq | The Sunset Story
The Sunset Story
in a heavy hued squash of strokes
a white enigma of bliss kisses the sunset
an icy-mute statue frozen
in the swirls of time. capturing
the swan in a virtual net
the swansong of the fisherman
about to end in a huddle!
huddling up, a frayed, grey overcoat
toting a haggard creature
who mumbles among the thicket
in the listeners’ leaf-like ears:
I am Eddie the Banished
I am a kid in a kidnapper’s car…
from the car of shrubbery
trespassing into another world
like a rat, across he darts
to a bench watching the sun climb down:
that’s my kidnapper man
and the next spot for a span
occupies his shady countenance.
countenance that eclipses itself
from the line of sight of Peter’s.
his solitary, mysterious droning
of a parrot, imposing itself on Peter
whose eyes, fixed on pixels and megapixels!
the creature’s address: I flatter the flora
to smile for me, I tweet sandwiches,
to beg, not actually eat,
has pushed to fringes of perishing
the magician’s flaunting tricks,
our place naked like a bare
mannequin of beauty divested,
look, so many behind the bush have hid…
before the end of the swansong, before
vexed Peter’s opening word, the speaker
sprawls, now unmoving.
cannot open their box some
without destroying what’s within
and some do not assay unlatching like me:
with this exit Peter and his net.
Anam Tariq is a poet, writer and book reviewer from India with an MA in English and a poetry collection A Leaf upon a Book (Leadstart, 2022) to her name. She is currently running The Wordsridge Newsletter on Substack and is a writer at Writers’ Cafeteria. Anam’s poems appear in several lit. mags and anthologies such as The Punch Magazine, New Reader Magazine, LiveWire, Lived Collective, Spill Words and others. You can know more about her at www.anamtariq.in or find her @anam.tariq_ (Instagram).
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