Every evening the trees inhale birds
Swirling back home like a warm shawl
But I still wait for my perch in your arms
I would peg so lightly the sheets of your night flights
We would travel in one mind your old lands my new skies
And every morning you would breathe me fly
Mani Rao is the author of nine poetry books and two books in translation, Kalidasa for the 21st Century (Aleph, 2014) and Bhagavad Gita (Fingerprint India, 2015). Her poems and essays appear in numerous journals and anthologies. Her latest collection is New & Selected Poems (Poetrywala, 2015), which includes her selected poetry from the last three decades of publication.
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