Agni[1]
It burns today just like that at a strike as if after
centuries Nachiketa’s[2] fire can crackle the same humming
Rik Veda like a river that does not end in childhood evening
lamps near household gods very familiar like chastised kids in
grandma’s altar in the low-voltage electric bulb tungsten
yellow on a faded brown scrap of a night
[1] Fire
[2] Nachiketa is the young hero of Katha Upanishad who met Yama, the god of Death, and asked him to explain the mysteries of life and death.
| Priyadarshi Patnaik |
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