Rizwan Akhtar
Trees are like extinct languagestaking care of their lonely lives
wind spatters leaves curling verboselyon ground holding archaic texts
words pile on tongue for sounds,I make a mental munch of silence
your memory is cusped on barksswinging like loose sentences
hinged on an esoteric grammar,l stable on its spontaneous growth
you did not read my gesturesthey are sprouting like poems
evening strips their shadows like themesleaving me, wondering meanings