Sunday, October 5, 2014

Arun Kolatkar: Poem Woman by Kolatkar: MA Syllabus: MU, PU

Woman by Kolatkar


a woman may collect cats read thrillers
her insomnia may seep through the great walls of history
a lizard may paralyze her
a sewing machine may bend her
moonlight may intercept the bangle
circling her wrist

a woman my name her cats
the circulating library
may lend her new thrillers
a spiked man may impale her
a woman may add
a new recipe to her scrapbook

judiciously distilling her whimper the city lights
may declare it null and void
in a prodigious weather
above a darkling woman
surgeons may shoot up and explode
in a weather fraught with forceps
woman may damn
man

a woman may shave her legs regularly
a woman may take up landscape painting
a woman may poison
twenty three cockroaches


This is a poem by Arun Kolatkar, often prescribed in MA Syllabus of many universities. Hope this article will help you. Soon, the analysis will be placed here.