Just As

Just as jewellery,

moist cells shining,

or scented erasers you cradled at five,

each carrying

an elephant or tree

or dog, are too delectable

to be spent on their own purpose,

but ask to be eaten,

so sandesh

in its untouchable

heterogeneity

is displayed behind the pane

as in a museum

to be stared at and historicized.