Barefoot children stop and stareGazes arrestedBy the banganapalli trunkWhose fruit sways gentlyIn a summer windAnd brown eyesCalculate trajectoryOf perfectly thrown stonePlaced just soTo summon sweet delightFleshy and fulfillingTo Epicurean urgesOf Dalit and BrahminJust the same.
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About the writer
Mukund Gnanadesikan. Mukund Gnanadesikan is a poet and novelist currently based in Napa, CA. A 1992 graduate of Princeton University, his poems have been featured or are upcoming in Sheets:For Men Only, Adelaide Literary Journal , The Ibis Head Review, Tuck Magazine, Junto Magazine, Streetlight Press and The Cape Rock.
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