Three Very Short Poems for Marjorie!

Bina Sarkar

Friendship

for our exquisite poet, Marjorie Evasco

friendship
grows like
lush foliage
from earth
sodden with
a sense of
life lived
in layers of
dream and
awakening.

the body
is earth
browned
with the
warmth of
comrades––
their
narratives
a patina
of leaves
that become
mine.

Books

a book is a river; a voyage into the unknown on a paper boat. a book is a harbour where boats meet, bearing parables and thoughts; a book is a searchlight illuminating thoughts rooted in a forest; a book is a forest, its leaves dense with words; its words are flames kindling our senses; a book is the sum of all our senses that flow like a river; a book is a river of words that encircles the universe; a book is a is the universe of life; life that unskeins a constellation of experiences — ways of living and seeing and telling; a book is a river; a book is forever.

I Am A Tree

a tree lives inside me
its cloistered roots
anchor my
wandering mind
its gnarled trunks
hold my spine
its branches
stretch into
the hidden sky
of my ruminations
it’s leaves are words
that sing songs
of enchantment
when stirred
by the nomad breeze
of new beginnings

that drift through
my blue veins~
its precious fruit
is plucked and peeled
for untold narratives~

a tree lives inside me.
i am a tree.