Nucleus

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With leaves, back-lit by the Sun,

Glass-green and veined

And in starlight,

Dark tufted chins,

The Peepal tree’s

Roots cleave the earth,

(Taut with muscle and bone

The standing trunk)-

Poised hooves of wild horses:

 

A hill-stream descends,

A cow’s-bell tinkling –

Stillness swings in the night-branches

Like infant-apes,

Moving the tree forward:

 

Here’s a nucleus

Detached, whole,

Never going wrong –

And all light moving

Under-water

Or star-beyond.

©Krishnamurti Ganesh