Summer in Calcutta

What is this drink but

The April sun, squeezed

Like an orange in

My glass? I sip the

Fire, I drink and drink

Again, I am drunk,

Yes, but on the gold

Of suns. What noble

Venom now flows through

My veins and fills my

Mind with unhurried

Laughter? My worries

Doze. Wee bubbles ring

My glass, like a bride’s

Nervous smile, and meet

My lips. Dear, forgive

This moment’s lull in

Wanting you, the blur

In memory. How

Brief the term of my

Devotion, how brief

Your reign when I with

Glass in hand, drink, drink,

And drink again this

Juice of April suns.