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Milk Still Boils

Milk Still Boils

Milk Still Boils

He lies in bed, one hand
Thrown across his eyes.
This, he figures, is more like it.
He no longer thinks about her,
Or him. Just them.
And the postures they struck
Just before the milkman came.
In a minute he will be up
To put the milk on the boil
And no one the wiser.

© 1999, C. P. Surendran
From: Posthumous Poems
Publisher: Penguin Books India, New Delhi

C. P. Surendran

C. P. Surendran

CP Surendran is a poet and novelist. He has written four volumes of poetry: Gemini II, Posthumous Poems, Canaries on the Moon and Portraits of the Space We Occupy. He is also the author of a novel, An Iron Harvest. A journalist and columnist, he is currently based in Pune. He writes in English.

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Milk Still Boils

He lies in bed, one hand
Thrown across his eyes.
This, he figures, is more like it.
He no longer thinks about her,
Or him. Just them.
And the postures they struck
Just before the milkman came.
In a minute he will be up
To put the milk on the boil
And no one the wiser.

From: Posthumous Poems

Milk Still Boils

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