Portrait of writer Nicolas Padamsee: (Oil on paper)
Wake up to me
somewhere
in the outskirts of London
back at home
I am drinking tea
out of a steel glass
with a thick rim
somewhere
in a colourful
Grecian neighborhood
lips and cigarettes burn,
politics, and sex fume,
your dreams
come true
Malavika Udayan is a poet and a visual artist. Her works have been published in ArtsAgainstExtremism, CreativeCritical.Net among others. twitter: Malavika_Udayan.