Landscape — A Poem

i don’t have a garden i / never had one, i have realized today.

Credits: Shashank K (https://www.instagram.com/shashanqueer/)

i don’t see flowers in my garden today
they are hidden underneath white
mush of snow / perhaps.

the little birds which used to / welcome
me every evening
are undergoing wing transplants.

and the trees
under whose shade i used / to make
love with squirrels of other castes
are singing carols in a mosque.

the garden does not…