NELUMBO*

Picture-perfect Daydream (Thodasa Rumani Ho Jaaye)

November Flower*

The chrysanthemums you grow so lovingly in your garden
They bear no thorns

Well Nigh 30 Summers

30 years is an awful long time
and spring is past us.

But the heart recognizes
another more beautiful
than the face it belongs to.

PURPLE PROSE

Pretty petals all in a row,