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He Wrote Her a Love Poem

Bewildering Stories, 2018
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27/06/2018 He Wrote Her a Love Poem http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue766/love_poem.html 1/1 He Wrote Her a Love Poem by P. K. Vijayan He wrote her a love poem: It was a usual love poem, telling of desire by telling of things beyond desire — the skies, for example — describing her a little subtly, by pretending not to describe her; not speaking of the flash of her eyes or the black mass of her hair that sang her praises in the wind, but of the stillnesses of her hands and gaze, that so erased him — and so on. Then he thought of singing it to her, under rain, with ink flowing, and the verses melting but pouring still from his heart, because he thought she was engraved there, already forever engraved. Then he looked into that space where his heart should have been — where his heart should have been. And in that space his poem ended. Copyright © 2018 by P. K. Vijayan Proceed to Challenge 766... Return to top Would you like to compliment the author? Offer a comment or suggestion? Please drop us a line and we’ll be glad to forward it. Return to the Readers’ Guide Return to the issue index Contacts & Submissions General Information General Indexes Special Indexes About Writing Schedule and Search
27/06/2018 He Wrote Her a Love Poem Contacts & Submissions General Information General Indexes Special Indexes About Writing Schedule and Search He Wrote Her a Love Poem by P. K. Vijayan He wrote her a love poem: It was a usual love poem, telling of desire by telling of things beyond desire — the skies, for example — describing her a little subtly, by pretending not to describe her; not speaking of the flash of her eyes or the black mass of her hair that sang her praises in the wind, but of the stillnesses of her hands and gaze, that so erased him — and so on. Then he thought of singing it to her, under rain, with ink flowing, and the verses melting but pouring still from his heart, because he thought she was engraved there, already forever engraved. Then he looked into that space where his heart should have been — where his heart should have been. And in that space his poem ended. Copyright © 2018 by P. K. Vijayan Proceed to Challenge 766... Return to top Would you like to compliment the author? Offer a comment or suggestion? Please drop us a line and we’ll be glad to forward it. Return to the Readers’ Guide Return to the issue index http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue766/love_poem.html 1/1