Kala Ramesh

By Kala RameshChennai/Pune, India Meanwhile a city wired to the hustle and bustle of aspirations.     Kali temple     a mantra-mumbling priest     cuts the goat's throat Bones Journal: #22, February 2021

By Kala Ramesh Chennai/Pune, India the red dot on my forehead binds me            to a man who's in his own orbit          parading          the so-called equality          with iron bars concealed …          this urban woman lives          in her dreams —tanka doha (tanka couplet) Kabir, a 15th-century Indian mystic-poet-saint, is famous for his doha. We have longer tanka sequences, but there is something special about a twin tanka which says so much in a short span of 10 lines. 

By Kala RameshChennai/Pune, India tiger tigerdwindling rapidly—my grandchildone day will know youonly from pictures Tanka 2020 (Red Moon Press Anthology)