Hrishikesh Srinivas


Dusk


Pink haze settles
Mountains soften
Towns light antsy foothills
Time is skittish again
				(& fleet of feet)
Spring wanders wonders
White heat sleeps early
Minutiae play for keeps
Salvete sup momentum
				(& advise reprise)
                
                
                
Day


Breaking news covers it all
               The high voice of a young woman cajoling her puppy outside
               The sunlight passing through the senate
               Curdling milk inexplicable cinnamon belvedere extensions
               Preachers for movie runtimes sleepers for embarking music 
               Better band sounds with horn sections and jazz and funk and Thee 
               Crooners singing with their arms outstretched again
               Just before the kick-offs before the tosses
               The distant dying call of a bird in the night
               Lovers’ dirt on each other
               The calculating circling in the ring this morning
               Later in the day calls ended dreadful overtaking silence
                                                                                                                                       just shouting all that time.

Hrishikesh Srinivas hails from Sydney, Australia. He enjoys reading and writing poetry, with poems having appeared in UNSWeetened Literary Journal, Hemingway's Playpen, Otoliths and Mantis. He was awarded the Dorothea Mackellar National Poetry Award in 2011 and the Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Youth Award in 2013, also being included in the 'Laughing Waters Road: Art, Landscape and Memory in Eltham' 2016 exhibition catalogue. He is currently a graduate student in electrical engineering at Stanford University, USA.

 
 

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