Pictures of an Indian City

Stone trunk, ash bowl, rancid wheel
Raj mouth, silk, oil, flake and peel
Hair mask, star grind, coin or crust
Gold haze, beg, blaze, crease and crush

Hook leg, moon smile, point of blood
Head grin, shoe spit;
"Tea from the crest of the peak where one perches, escaping the heat, as one must"
Dream-flick, veil shift, veil of lust
Scab-eyed, rag-child, point of dust

Black train, straight bat, wide river fire
Timeless, caste free, whirl away pyre
Stone trunk, star-grind, coin or crust
Gold baze, rag-child, painted dust