When The Smoke Rises

Folder: 
Satish Verma

Writing poems 
on your lips, 
fearlessly compromising 
the Venus. 

The pink, female 
moonlets, trying to 
stitch a womb. 

I start a countdown 
to launch, 
a death paramour. 
My severed hand 
holds a yellow rose. 

Preserving the― 
half skull of artificial 
intelligence, living 
without you. 

Meet me again 
on the crossroads. 
I want to change 
the gender with you.