Portrait

by Sanghamitra Roychowdhury - Not entered

An acquaintance hovering over my head, 
Enlarging my negatives with curtained cameras
The photographic chamber of the eye.

Talk was inconsequential
Magnifyng messages with mere monosyllables
Chemistry created confusion, compounds defying comprehension
Though we created chemical bonds through synchronous breathing.

Your definition of nudity was the portrait of my landscape
A long winding spiral staircase, an intricate labyrinth
Surveying contours and summits of savannas, peaks of elevated plateaus
Like Magellan, circumnavigating continents, but with a canvas of chartreuse.

Knees jutting up like icebergs, coral rocks floating in a sea of kelp
Unwinding pubic hairs like unfolding bridges into your towns
Sand smeared legs stretched as two points fused to form a 60 degree angle.

Indiscreet statisticians, with brushstrokes that computed
The cartesian coordinates of the clitoris, fingers as
Protractors measuring the perpendicularity of the penis.

Thoreau's Walden and the correlation of nature to character traits 
You raided and resided in virginal territory, unadulterated, untarnished by toxicity
Shorelines which hadn't slept with syringes, saturated mountaintops of sewage.

I dream in pure viridian, its deeper shade of piety and prayer
While rehearsing catechisms and chanting meditative mantras
I used to be a cynic of astrological assumptions,

And now I was mapping the nanoseconds of our planets' alignment 
Our colliding constellations were prophetic predictions of oracles'
Foreshadowed fate, as we were green foliage springing 

From each other's beds of fertile vegetation, it felt like
Deja Vu, shunning premier shows and art gallery openings
Our paintings privately portrayed against picturesque backdrops
Perhaps this was predestination.
Birth sign: Not entered
Date created: 1998-02-11 21:51:07
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:39:59
Poem ID: 48778

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