in the dark

we moved in

[ rock ]           [ water ]

          [ fire ]                [ clay ]

[ bird]             [nail]

      [ thread]              [egg]

million thinner layers of 

 hunger       [stone-axe]     after  

             thirst  

[green]      [cave ]

                 [fall-leaves ]       

 foraging           [ bone]     [ fruit ]

  [footprints]    

of  nonexistent beasts in 

[ daylight ]        we gather 

around  

our skin       too close 

[. ]

…

Pratheesh gathers poem-objects and found-words from the homestead and preserves them all in a wooden box. He lives in a village close to the western ghats of Kerala, India.~