When the hominids
who evolved into sapiens
took to an upright position
and bipedalism,
their front extremities were freed
to build space stations & quantum computers,
roller skis & racing bikes,
Like A Rolling Stone & In Search of Lost Time

The world is dancing its brutal elegance
from the paper
up my pen
into my brain,
where I sit, cross-legged,
rocked on the swell

Today is an open silence,
ornated
with Hariprasad Chaurasia's flute
in Rag Darbari Kannada