by: Trivarna Hariharan
These four short, deceptively simple poems by Trivarna Hariharan are photographs of consciousness taken at the moment when it wakens to the world, offering images that startle with their incompleteness and enchant with their strict focus, sounding hidden depths at the heart of experience.
Voyage
Trailing along the bark
of an autumn’s tree—
a bird looks for
mangoes ripened by
the evening sun.
Nocturne
The song of
a woman tilling
a far-away land
draws
the winter’s cold
nearer.
Sonata
The bird
that drifts along
my window
has forgotten how
to sing.
Echo
Winter’s birdsong—
the laughter of children
playing in snow.
Trivarna Hariharan is a student of English Literature from India. She has authored The Necessity of Geography (Flutter Press), Home and Other Places (Nivasini Publishers), and Letters I Never Sent (Writers Workshop, Kolkata). Her poems appear or are forthcoming from Right Hand Pointing, Thir
