After Wanda Coleman
Indian sonnet: Bombay through a Rose tree

shattered into 1.35 billion: part the sky part the bustle part lost
“Bombay is very very nice this time of the year. “
ㅤ ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ~Rachel Greene

The blunt ugliness of a factory you see by the railway track; the subtle sleek to its pipes coming down too.
Rose trees don’t grow in New York City, but in Bombay, ay, they do. Heavy rain on the streets, on Audis, on BMWs, & in Instagram’s boomerangs, most exquisite.
Beaches by the hills the sea the sea rumbling its stomach tumbling all onto us. Saline rain fallen, rose petals forced to too, extinct sparrows abound here, hopping puffingly.
The radio jockey interrupting the music to advocate for a kid fighting blood cancer, & iterating how mundane the rest of our problems are.
Miles South, in the 27 floored Antilla, the Ambanis may or may not live.

- read on—
© Zev 2019






