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Artichoke Reverie

Taste of buttered artichokes summons a cherished place, now only a dream.

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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

Lina Krishnan is an abstract artist and writer in India. Small Places, Open Spaces is her chapbook of nature verse. Her poems can also be seen in sixteen anthologies, among them the Black Bough Poetry Winter Anthology; and three editions of the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English.

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