Face of Desolation – A Poem by Sunil Sharma

Broad sweeps
of
thick grey.

Threads and
arcs
of
the light grey.

They nest
in each other; curled figures of mother-baby.

Hung over the deep-scarlet sea,
a
scroll of
vivid circles, in the upper corners
of
the blue sky, darkening by seconds.

Transient whirlpools. Inlets of sea. Silhouetted thickets, far-off.

Birds bring motion
to
the violence
of

reds
raw, intense.

—Silence over the valley.