Friday, April 16, 2010

Putting it together

"It's easy", My mother says,
"These are the pieces,
here is the final picture,
right here, on the top of the box,
just match the slots,
the key is to find the corners.
Go on, finish the puzzle".

I turn away, ashamed.
How do I tell her, I've lost some tiles.

4 comments:

Ashita said...
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Hussain Haidry said...

A very, very nice piece. :)

One suggestion: Remove the word 'ashamed' from the second last line and see how it looks then.

Vinod Khare said...

@Hussain: Excellent suggestion. No need to force your own interpretation on the reader. Becomes more open ended that way.

Sarthak Prakash said...

i think i've said to this for most of what i've read of you - short, and holy mother of dear god so sweet.

it's something i've never been able to do, say so much in so little.

but you keep at it,
for the better and the verse.