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Khayal I [an excerpt]
Illustrate my proclivity my forbearance my limitless conveyance that
which inheritance alludes and presence makes oh so sweet. That
inheritance which rejoinders the continual coming of assembly,
valent and municipal in tawdry scope.
Languishing fervencies –
artistry and tuscan red, claret tipple, Badakhshan reds,
spindell galore, oh mountain of light, sea of light
lavish your riches, your exquisiteness on ice, the sublimity, the
splendour, in the dying light, the vengeful wrath of Being – Dasein –
towards death. I wait intransigent, attempting inscrutability with leering
eyes out at the world, the stage the scene.
Seen.
Sin.
Your laundering ambitions, voraciousness moorishness, the great
Mouravi at the helm, durbaz-bound, sun-dappled armaments,
ornate entablature, prastara, replete with the lyrical flourishes that
multiplicity furnished. Allotted materials, filigreed serrations.
Narrate the comings and goings. The porous fissiparous
sagacities, the astylar, extoll courtly virtue to the slavish mass,
sanguine and demur. Palinode for a poorboy! The
littoral site protrudes out from the ash-driven steppe,
where the folk voice announces bardic flow and ყარიბი life.
Nothing is off the table,the microphone patter, whirring and
scuttling – pray tell, prayer hands – keep flowing the purple ashes
purple rains of princely affairs. Allude me this.
Tickle my fancy, return to the docks, the garden, the
enclosure bordered by copse and bush, shrubland and wetland
chalk stream and upriver challenges, thicketing splays,
a groove of cross-legged peace, yogic energy, orchards of way-
laden fruits, coppieces for daily fodder – the mind’s ablative
reconstruction – here and now
a spinnery, clumping together
bereaved, the lowlanders ferried on
the brocage endearing and awesome
oh this hillock adored and spurned.
Riddling Turkic origins – who we are – animal herding
reprobates, urban adjacent, pass over the steppe
settling down unto the great romanic seat, sparring words
weaving summits, glisten ears and rest easy
effluent sufficement in the face of supplication
the everyday stubble, bituminous waste, spilling fervent
Diseased vine, grape heavy blossom sweet suckling scent
ferocious languishing, accept the oath, the regular alternation in
turn smooth and in turn pressing; – accompanying rhythm
idolous, undoubtedly fizzing pleasingly, a skating of imagination
over courtly ribaldry, the king of kings, suzerainty’s offer to
smooth the crack, invoke the wound and lick the poison, a cure
for all seasons, namely lost in the jadooghar of heart’s intent a
wanting of ripening virtue, prostrate in full view of sin, the fissure
at the breaking point that inception of calamity and entropy, the
demotic annunciation, a standard of temerity, of catalectic flight,
apocryphal sentiment looted from the memory-theatre of exalted
time, the age of empire, the age of discovery, silk, calico, looms of
great repute lay upon this sultry ground manipulate and tax
imposing misfortune, benevolence the unyielding stream of
suzerainty and the perennial ill of the civil.
We strip down, contagious in spirit
and lank to bone / strewn out flexing inordinacy –
a provinciality of force enacted upon the great
sophistry of silent gains, marginal and
irrevocable – tender and slight:
bear forth into the light, your awaiting
functionaries
Kashif Sharma-Patel is a poet and writer. Their debut collection furnish, entrap is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in 2024. Kashif runs a newsletter culture hawker https://kashifsp.substack.com/
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