Vaishnavi Ramaswamy
The Heat Between Two Summers
A late afternoon in August. Hours of hot dry winds that keep blowing in through the curtains, drying up the moisture from my eyes. Two glasses of milk tea and biscuits. Feeling like a slug, on the cane recliner I turn around facing the window. A gaze stranded somewhere on a random patch of white in the blue sky outside.
5 p.m.
watching
a pair of crows
allopreen...
i feel nothing
Sonny returns home, bathes, eats. An apple on the bed tray.
Nightfall. The phone is on charge and resting. The medicines induce drowsiness. His anxious meltdowns slowly grow feeble.
frozen shoulder
propped on a pillow
the mind
sinks into a life
throbbing in flashes
About the Author
Vaishnavi Ramaswamy is a nature and animal enthusiast. She is passionate about books, photography, travel and music. Her areas of research and interests include language, linguistics, creative writing and poetry. Some of Vaishnavi’s poems have appeared in journals and she has a poetry anthology to her credit. She is a homemaker living in India with her family