Annette,
At the dresser.
Pale fingers over mirror-fields
Reaping
That wheat brown hair.
Beauty
Falling as chaff in old mirrors,
While calenders
In all
The cities turn....

[From Only The Soul Knows How To Sing]

(C) Kamala Das
04/29/2019


Best Poems of Kamala Das

• Forest Fire
• The Sunshine Cat
• The Old Playhouse
• Punishment In Kindergarten
• The Rain
• The Suicide
• In Love
• A Losing Battle
• An Introduction
• The Looking Glass
• Annette
• Words
• Winter
• The Testing Of The Sirens
• Relationship
• Krishna
• Summer In Calcutta
• The Maggots
• The Stone Age
• The Dance Of The Eunuchs