Circles of fire
Fire glows between the flapping wings.
The air is damp. Trees, agitated. So, the
waves.
The Red-winged blackbird flies into dim
sky, threatened by
gathering storm on the saw-toothed edges
of the
red-eyed horizon. Ethereal beauty, fleeting.
Soon obscured
by
the neon lights.
Sunil Sharma is an academic, critic, literary editor, and author with 29 published books: Eight collections of poetry, five of short fiction, two novels, a critical study of the novel, and 10 joint anthologies on prose, poetry, and criticism, two joint poetry collections, and one joint fiction collection. He is a recipient of the UK-based Destiny Poets’ Inaugural Poet of the Year award—2012. He also won the Panorama Golden Globe Award-2023, and Nissim Award for Excellence-2022 for the novel Minotaur. His poems were published in the UN project: Happiness: The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, in 2015.
