Artichoke Reverie

    Kashmir I thought of you

    while walking in Bombay

    But that was in a dream too

    Where, then, am I?

    This morning, unexpectedly

    A friend wrote to me 

    Of artichokes dipped in butter

    That he had eaten in Srinagar

    That tasted like a dream

    How do I tell him

    That Srinagar itself 

    Is the stuff of dreams now

    And that

    You cannot revisit a dream, at will

    Lina Krishnan is a poet and abstract artist in Auroville, India. Her work has been included in literary journals, arts magazines and in nine collections of poetry.

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