Lockdown Gardens: "Set with raindrops"
Set with raindrops, displayed
between the king’s mantle and the litchi tree,
was the cobweb I almost walked into.
After an hour, when I returned,
the light had changed, the raindrops
were smaller, the glitter had gone,
and there was no sign of the occupant.
Copyright Credit: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra , from "Lockdown Garden: An Excerpt" from Harvard Review Online. Copyright © 2023 by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. Reprinted by permission of Arvind Krishna Mehrotra.
Source: Harvard Review Online (Harvard Review, 2023)