Smoke Trails


Photo credit: AP Photo/Altaf Qadri


Brick kiln chimneys stuck, into the bosom of the country soil;

Like enormous incense sticks, smoking in veneration,

Rising from a clump of Ganges clay.

Such is the soil this earth is made of;

Such are the bricks our walls are made of.

---One from the archives (circa 2006-07)

Photo credit: Match Sùmàyà on Unsplash


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