So the semicolon equivocates? one lingers while it discreetly waits it lets you (mid-sentence) pause & think like double-faced Janus over a drink both formal & quite meditational too slow for the micro-durational! Monday, November 12, 2012 Diwali -- light's renascent festival occurs just as the world heads into shadow! it celebrates the victory of Raama and his   and his beloved's   journey home via an ancient (so they tell us) aircraft a happy ending of the endless tale if later things untoward might unfold this celebration's flush yet gleams in gold 2. Is this (mere days beyond his birthday) when my father's spirit joins its larger frame? enmeshed in some deep fiction of the self that bleeds into creation's lucent plane? Diwali (Dipavali)! wicks afloat in tiny craft on Hindustani streams in life we come & go not glimpsing how nor why!   what eddies swirl beyond the bow? About Me born in California   fifty years since /  got into painting   in New York City /   what were the music   my verse would evince? /   poetry flows   in guise of a ditty /   passing the seasons   in Bhopal city /   playing sarangi   when morning glints /   heaven show mercy!   (famous for pity) /   born in California   fifty years since [written some years ago] DRI occasionally tweets at: raagatodi . See also his earlier blog: KIRWANI