For Sale or Rent

Available for sale or rent 

with sunset and mountain view, 

hand-built single home 

set amidst litchi trees, 

eco-friendly, using 100% 

pine needles, lightweight, 

cup shaped, the rim wide 

then narrowing, the walls thick, 

the base deep; attached to it 

a twig and a piece of string, 

white, belonging to a black 

garbage bag used for the disposal 

of adult diapers, medium sized. 

 

Car access, wifi, 

caretaker present 24/7. 

Suitable for a small bird 

in the family way. 

Recording kindly donated by Arvind Mehrotra. From 'Selected Poems and Translations', published by The New York Review of Books, 2019. Used with permission of the author.

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra in the Poetry Store

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