A metonymy for life!

Luminescent sobriquets,

nuances and innuendos,

oleander dreams,

a morsel of leftover words;

decoding syntax and semantics!

Taxonomy of hysteria,

transfered epithets,

shifted proxemics

blurring the gap between space and dimension.

Peeping from behind translucent ballads

are hurrine rhymes

trying to carve a niche

within a heartfelt epistle.

Noctilucent clouds on summer skies;

splurged with meta communication midst graphic metaphors.

Dangling dreams from distant corridors on sordid noons.

A table fan,
 Maa's flowing hair,
 fish bones on aluminium plates,
 the smell of egg curry on my fingers;
 Baba's sweaty shirt smelling of his toils.
 Thamma's broken wooden chair.
 Spring evenings
 and an ivory reticence
 wrapped within an empiricist's sheet;
 a metonymy for life
 climbing down the spiral staircase of remembrance,
 wearing a galvanized smile.

Debarati Sen works at the Presidency University, Kolkata as a Junior Assistant. She is also an independent researcher in the genre of Disability Studies and a freelancer with an International NGO named JPS Medaid. Writing is therapeutic for her.