Contributor: Daipayan Nair

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I playfully surprise you
with a toy cloud
when you have none,

owing to those sudden lane, roadside pranks
accepted irrespective of a mood
with you on the rooftop
laughing an explosive laughter

How you rejoice,
pours down as a few alphabets
on a house poet's prime paper,
I am able to read

touching the one in it, strangely plain

with or without a fading face.


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Born on 1988 in a small town of Silchar, Assam, India, Daipayan Nair is a freelance writer/columnist, poet, fiction writer and essayist. His works have been published in a lot of anthologies and poetry journals like The Poetry Breakfast, The Galway Review, Tuck Magazine, 1947 Literary Journal, Duane's PoeTree Blog etc. He was recently awarded The Reuel International Poetry Prize 2016.