What Do I Love

Love the poem

taciturn

love the voice

love the roots

taking space

love the crisp

turn of the phrase

importunate word

strip teasing me into

surrender,

love rainbow in your eyes;

what do I love

but barking times

of restlessness?

Ananya S Guha lives in Shillong in Northeast India. His poems have been published in both print and electronic formats, and he has been writing poetry for the last forty years.