Thursday, June 12, 2025

THAT WORKPLACE by Devayani Anvekar

 

Rafael Rodrigues

THAT WORKPLACE 

your escape from college, another 

larger cage, to follow high school 

house exotic parrots to teach. 

 

prompt the birds to speak, what they 

been made fit to know and speak. 

 

impress delight their master and his 

guests, you escaped like prisoner 

from prison.

 

only to find yourself inside yet 

another larger prison. a chic cell.

 

offer you bits of cherished relief and 

delight whistling, playing, with your 

own bit of crisp flapping bank-notes. 

 

but still, not, with your own bit of 

mind flit, chirp inside.

 

you with a parched land’s thirst 

for water, seek

 

a Love

/

a God

/

a Divine Being

/

a Prophet / a Saint / a Deity

/

a Heaven

 

that will. plant light that gleams

like glistening diamonds 

in your eyes.

 

genuine smiles laughter flowers

like exotic fragrant mogra flowers 

on your pink lily lips.


© Devayani Anvekar

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Devayani Anvekar



Devayani Anvekar is an illustrator and caricaturist of social and domestic issues. She lives in Goa, India. She writes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction prose when drawing fails to convey human struggle. Her written work has appeared in
50-Word Stories, The Metaworker, and is forthcoming in The Genre Society and Witcraft. 


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