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Cages, urban, iron<\/strong><\/p>\n Deprived of the sky A bird flutters in a cage nearby <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sunil Sharma<\/strong>\u00a0is a Mumbai-based senior academic, critic, literary editor and author with 19 published books, some solo, some joint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cages, urban, iron Deprived of the sky And the ground, Suspended in air A woman sits, in a Tiny balcony that doubles as\u00a0a flower-bed In a high-rise, tenth floor, in the Vertical Mumbai, Reading a morninger In late afternoon, Legs stretched out, cell phone nearby. Human face breaking the dull monotony of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[138,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18493,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18178\/revisions\/18493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnd the ground,
\nSuspended in air
\nA woman sits, in a
\nTiny balcony that doubles as\u00a0a flower-bed
\nIn a high-rise, tenth floor, in the
\nVertical Mumbai,
\nReading a morninger
\nIn late afternoon,
\nLegs stretched out, cell phone nearby.
\nHuman face breaking the dull monotony
\nof a tall bee-hive, windows closed\/curtained;
\nPiles of the concrete cages upon cages
\nGoing up in the carbon-coated sky;
\nDream apartments—standardized\u00a0and
\nExorbitantly-priced, to keep you working for life.<\/p>\n
\nAn Indian Golden\u00a0Oriole\u00a0wistful,
\nSearching for a full sky.<\/p>\n