Seating Them at Park Benches

Poem

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occupied nodal benches seat them –
resting their elbows on plaid
wrapped femurs.

ties swing in pendulum,
as do faces seating unspectacled eyes
spotting insects trawled in wind.

unspectacled eyes/
soft edges/
airbrush crawling brown toddlers
in the mud.

nubivagant motions raise
leisurely arms,
creak/
cement/
benches,
like planked floors.

bouquets of hands obscure in suited flâneur pockets. bouquets of hands that i cannot count. bouquets of pockets hiding hands like the last supper.

Bhavyakirti