R. K. Singh SNAKES

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SNAKES
a haiku sequence

Ram Krishna Singh



Sunny morning:
a snake slides through the fence
looking for a prey


Full of silt
the Ganga overflows:
snakes under the waves


Raises its hood
a cobra in water:
algae criss-cross


Searching reason
in the labyrinthine pattern:
snakes in courtyard


Avoids searching
mushroom in the crowded green--
snake on the fence


Searches thorn apples
to propitiate lingam:
snake in sanctum


A snake's tail
coils round a sweet
in the box


Smells a snake
in the wet grass--
her smile


Rises with tickles
between the thighs
the dream-serpent


A yellow snake
slithers on the grass--
dewy trail of love


Climbing high through
rough pathway and stony cold
a green snake


A snake's dead skin
near the fence:
she stands unmoving

October 2007


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