Komal Gandhar1( In memory of certain anarchists)

Once
Or
twice
I saw you
For a matchstick flame- time
Lighting a beedi

Hair
Beard
like Mirza Galib2
like Christ

100 ml of fiery
arrack
blossomed
“ Black Magic Woman3

then
a folk song
on death

In parallel mirrors
the Prometheus selves4
multiplied

John 5 became
Ghatak6
and
Shouted:
“Go make film bastard”

became
The Hitler of his film
The Hitler of his life
Death

2
For a bird
of your fiery breed
beggary, death
annunciation
nirvana

Falling down
or
pushed down
from a terrace
Motor cycle
or
Auto rickshaw
Victor Leenus 7, T.R.8
Surasu9 or
Chirammal Jose10

Leaves
with such names
always fall
prostrate
kissing sludge

Nameless in mortuary
minimum
two days
these
soft notes
in sharp scale
the same cadence
composition

Genes
Swaras kissed by
a black magic goddess

Anywhere

In Russia, India
Bengal or Kerala
in 18th, 20th
or 21st century

a death
natural
constitutional
post-mortemed
regularized

3
Questioning
designer existence
your
celluloid blood
black & White
towers
high

a burning torch
in a street play

“…Fire you burn11
burn, burn….”

1.Komal Gandhar a musical note . Also.name of a film by Rithiwk Ghatak
2.Mirza Galib Urdu poet Ghazal writer
3.Black Magic Womanthat song of Carlos Santana&Peter Green
4.Prometheus Greek hero who brought fire from heaven and was eternally punished
5.John. John Abraham Film Maker. in Malayalam
6. Rithiwk GhatakBengali Film maker
7.Victor Leenus Short Story Writers in Malayalam
8.T.R. Short Story Writers in Malayalam
9.Surasu. Playwright, Actor
10.Jose Chirammel. Director of Plays
11.“Fire you burn, burn…” Lines of a poem by Subramanniya Bharathi used by John Abrham in his film ‘Agraharathil Kazhuthai”