Anjali Ruhela

Peace (poem) by Adrienne Rich Lashes of white light binding another hailcloud - the whole onset all over bursting against our faces, sputtering like dead holly fired in a grate: And the birds go mad potted by grapeshot while the sun shines in one quarter of heaven and the rainbow breaks out its enormous flag- oily, unnegotiable- over the sack-draped backs of the cattle in their kingdom.

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Goats and Monkeys by Sir Derek Alton Walcott    … even now, an old black ram  is tupping your white ewe                                                                     -OTHELLO The owl’s torches gutter. Chaos clouds the globe. Shriek, augury! His earthen bulk Buries her bosom in its slow eclipse. His smoky hand has charred That marble throat. Bent to her lips, He is Africa, a vast sidling shadow That halves your world with doubt. "Put out the light", and God’s light is put out. That flame extinct, she contemplates her dream Of him as huge as night, as bodiless, As starred with medals, like the moon A fable of blind stone. Dazzled by that bull’s bulk against the sun Of Cyprus, couldn’t she have known Like Pasiphaë, poor girl, she’d breed horned monsters? That like Eurydice, her flesh a flare Trave...