For all those who supported different beings all through the floods and after...
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Frightened baby rat
Too stunned to move
Palpitating
Exposed
His heartbeat transfers
To my hands
As I lift him
And leave him
in relative safety
away from the roads
One other time,
It was Sandhiya
Lifting carefully on a twig
writhing shiny black tiny
Brahminy blind snake
From the footpath
And another time
She picked up the baby turtle
And returned it to the pond
The rat is still on my mind
Our heartbeats
are linked for a while
his fear
and trembling
shivering being
mine
to hold
in gentle
care
while he recuperates
under the
geranium bushes.
Artist: Srivi Kalyan
Linked
Frightened baby rat
Too stunned to move
Palpitating
Exposed
His heartbeat transfers
To my hands
As I lift him
And leave him
in relative safety
away from the roads
One other time,
It was Sandhiya
Lifting carefully on a twig
writhing shiny black tiny
Brahminy blind snake
From the footpath
And another time
She picked up the baby turtle
And returned it to the pond
The rat is still on my mind
Our heartbeats
are linked for a while
his fear
and trembling
shivering being
mine
to hold
in gentle
care
while he recuperates
under the
geranium bushes.
Artist: Srivi Kalyan