Initials in the Dust
written by: Ampat Varghese Koshy
I saw a very small, uniformed girl
on her way back home from school
draw her initial
K
on the thick layer of dust on a waiting BMTC bus
towards its back
at the bus stop near Clarence school
in benighted Bengaluru
smiling, pleased as punch.
My face, that had forgotten to smile
creased/cracked open into one, too
Dr. Koshy A.V. is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the English Department of Carmel College, Autonomous, Bengaluru, India. He has many books, degrees, diplomas, certificates, prizes, and awards to his credit and also, besides teaching, is an editor, anthology maker, poet, critic and writer of fiction. He runs an autism NPO with his wife, Anna Gabriel. Two of his co-authored books published in 2020 were Amazon best-sellers in India and USA, namely, Wine-kissed Poems with Jagari Mukherjee and Vodka by the Volga with Santosh Bakaya.
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