Kala Ramesh

The Labyrinth

Once a little girl bent down to ask the centipede, oh! hundred-legged one, how do you remember which leg to move first?

The centipede was so perplexed, that he stopped moving.

unmasked            
       in my mind  
a dozen selves  
each  
surprised at all the others

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About the Author

Kala Ramesh is a renowned pioneer in the field of haikai literature in India. Her 2017 book Beyond the Horizon Beyond was awarded a Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize Certificate.