Havelock

Tanvee, Ragini and Saurabh came to town

This is from June, but needs to be here. 

The day they had to leave, 

we went up the hill at 7am

 and explored a new part of it 

(where I'd never been)

The trees were wonderfully 

crackly and the ground dry. 

Thankfully, we were able 

to dodge the sun. 

This was part of Tanvee's 

Nature Girl Outings,

(v.1.0) A success. 

The borrowed jungle

This is what the front lawn of Amber looked like before they started planting in the back.

I remember everyone who passed the truck that had these plants and soil in it had a big grin on their faces. On that dusty afternoon when all we'd been hearing was sounds of drilling through concrete and cutting stone with metallic scrapings that crawled along everything, it was so refreshing to see live, green things that took over the whole lawn. 

 I stood very, very close to the banana plants for a long time, just to get some green on me.

Ranganthittu

d'ou venons nous? que sommes nous? ou allons nous?

Paul Gauguin, you are my June.
your painting gives off heat that mirrors the wooden floor.
If you seeked a society that was more elementary, I think I found it for you,
here, in your painting.

How many roads are there to simplicity that you looked for?
The human web caught you too,
you too became a victim.

Paintings have no choice but to survive the artist;
the people you froze in this frame would never know
if you found what you came here looking for.




Ishita
Tahiti, june 2010

It started here,
under the unending nilgiris.