Tawaraya Shirt—Confetti private sale slumping forward into the earth

slumping forward into the earth

there is the institution of the thank you note

The evening’s shower water drained a mess of electric hues

and often wonderful

the smell of fresh pencils

Tawaraya Shirt—Confetti private sale slumping forward into the earthNew Delhi in a taxi cab. The air, thick and hot with sun drenched dust. Car horns, an ambient symphony ever present through the window. Coca Cola and Fanta in glass bottles, marigolds, and shops casting fabrics on their floors in decadent abandon, one silk safely floating to rest on another. Outside, pigment thrown everywhere; bodies drenched in color. Bakhtins carnivalesque as Holi and holy. The evenings shower water drained a mess of electric hues,