Contrails

Poetry

Shringi Kumari

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Battle of Britain (1941), Paul Nash .Public Domain

Enquiries are lines in the sky. They give us a path on an abstract-abundant canvas. They tell our eyes, how to look at the expanse. To observe those contrails, one must have the willingness to follow other’s journey.

How earth opens to the sea? Consumes water in simpler formats: river, lakes, glaciers, streams. Allows its contours to start forming in the sky or the ocean, long before they appear on earth’s…

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