Put it This Way
by
Radiance Angelina Petro

I.

When Ravana
was killed,
the sun
spilled everywhere,
when Ratnakar
chanted: “mara, mara, mara,”
the gaps between
the words disappeared,
and became “rama, rama, rama.”

2.

Flowers can’t unbloom.
We all
wake up
in celestial mode,
all these words
look like
so many lines
of EKG’s
and echocardiograms.

3.

The day says:
“Put it this way:
remember to let in
a little chaos.
It’s the countermovements
that shed the most
light.”