Chittaranjan Dash, Delhi, 1 June 2025
O’ child of Autumn!
I see you flaking out from mirror-
Skin by skin, blood by blood,
O’ fiery angel of beauty-
How you fill my shadow in your whispers,
Wondrous sighs of rainbows,
In feathers of an itinerant flamingo,
With memory of a light year,
Bringing a rose into the song,
That I sing in evening orange of garden.
