Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

Moments lost

Devika Mathur is a published poetess residing in India. Her work has published in magazines like Visual Verse, Indian Periodicals, Blue ink poetry, Sudden Denouement among various others. She is a contributor writer for Whisper and the roar and blood into ink.

Moments lost

And so I rub my mind
Warm, sharp against your icicle chest.
Unfurling that trace of frozen lava.
I am no winter tree even.
I am frozen, more than you.
More than the dew.
Like holding time and swallowing it,
With butter in the pharynx.
I do it for you.
I have always done it for you,
Clenching shaded, half baked sun.
Consiliencing, pulverized atoms.
Like autumns,
I will fall too, with burning lamps
Burning wax left
Pens broken, curtains morbid.
I will sink,
I will still do it for you.
I have always done it for you.






Devika Mathur blogs at My Valiant Soul

Article © Devika Mathur. All rights reserved.
Published in the May 6, 2019 issue .
Image(s) are public domain.
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