{"id":1300,"date":"2008-07-10T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2008-07-10T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T17:02:00","slug":"at-gets-physical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/at-gets-physical\/","title":{"rendered":"AT gets physical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Physical<\/span>



How?<\/span>
How do you manage to do this?<\/span>
I knew you were there \u2013<\/span>
rather I was there…<\/span>
It was me<\/span>
and the joy<\/span>
at the first watch dad bought<\/span>
at the first terelene shirt he got<\/span>
at the first touch of her breast<\/span>
it was me…<\/span>
it has become a you now \u2013<\/span>
the magician's trick of<\/span>
disappearance without a trace<\/span>
like the traceless movement of the<\/span>
gentlest of breezes<\/span>
the touch,<\/span>
the body,<\/span>
that kiss of life \u2013<\/span>
physical<\/span>
where… where…<\/span>
only memories…<\/span>
were they your's even at that time?<\/span>
wordless<\/span>
bloody silence<\/span>
end<\/span>



\u2022 A.Thiagarajan, postgraduate in English, taught in colleges in India, before joining the the finance sector. He has been writing  in English and Tamil since college days. His work (poems, haiku, short  stories and articles) has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines including <\/span>Subtle Tea, Poetic Diversity, A Little Poetry, Poetry Canada, pwreview, poetrysuperhighway, betterkarma, Indolink, The  Heron's Nest, Haiku Harvest,  Roadrunner, Simply Haiku Meghdulam<\/span>, and <\/span>Mainichi<\/span>. He says the nuances of relationship between individuals, mental pain and the cruelty we inflict on each other and ourselves are his obsession. He lives in Mumbai, India with his wife, Rama.<\/span>
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