triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! hosts: Teji Sethi and Kala Ramesh GUEST EDITOR: Lakshmi Iyer, June 2023
mule deer slowly leaving her bones behind
John Pappas
Whiptail, Issue 4: Humbled Vessel
Hello readers,
There are moments of surprise in the poems hidden in between the time and space that breathes and echoes a voice of the universe. Unlock the door to the poem that stirs to startle you for a minute. Walk through them. Question the perception and resonate that with your experience. What makes you pause?
This month is going to be very interesting. Watch out for this space, every alternate day! Thank you, Lakshmi. We are waiting to see the month unfold. _()_
Very poignant and layered ku. But we all die and come back - a molecule in some life-form, another in another form... form is fleeting, but life endures.
It has so many layers… good one!
Thank you for the kind comments! The circumstances surrounding the deer's death are left for the reader to ponder. I wanted to put the focus on how naturally the deer returns to the forest, and how that is a process that happens in time. When does the deer become subsumed by the forest, an essential part of it but no longer recognizable as a deer or a single entity? When does this happen to us, what will we leave behind, and what do we become a part of? When we step away from ourselves, where might we travel? What do we become?
An excellent expression of poetic catharsis and metempsychosis. Nicely done!
Such a beautiful one-line ku. It's loaded. Was it a hunted dear and eaten up by other wild animals? Was it sickness or dying from old age?