how good it is the darkness

how good it is the darkness
    of your skin

touching you, I step into the shadows
   of a forest

treading across the ebony edges
    of your being
  
i hear the gurgle of an
         invisible stream

the faint sounds of chirping
    flowing out from you

are those field crickets hiding
   in your hair?


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Salil Chaturvedi
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