Antennas of Absence by Sudeep Adhikari

Antennas of Absence

“The house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” ― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

I look at the mosaic of corroded bricks,  

on the skin of an earthquake ridden house

in my neighborhood. Almost a Pollock's

 like painting of an overpowering

absence. I can't unfeel it.

What have you in your innermost depths?

What is the grammar of your mute,

 which speaks the language of a melting day?

What is the color of infinity, trapped inside

the cuboids of your incomplete death?

Questions translate to answers in themselves,  

and absence is not always a void.

Right on its thin concrete slab, a bird sits

and watches over an anxious city,

sending radio-waves to satellites of unnamable aches. 

Bio: Sudeep Adhikari is a structural engineer/Lecturer  from Kathmandu, Nepal.   His recent publications were with   Red Fez , Kyoto  , Your One Phone Call, Jawline Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Yellow Mama, Fauna Quarterly, Beatnik Cowboys, After The Pause, Poetry Pacific, Silver Birch Press and  Vox Poetica.