Honoured to be one of seven selected poets to collaborate with artist Sankara Jayanth Sudanagunta for his animated short haiga film, "Ephemeris":
Poet's Statement: (grateful thanks to Vandana Parashar for the reading on my behalf, as I was unable to attend the conference)
My poem was written as a call-and-answer response to the haiga, as well as to the other selected poems. It can be read both literally and metaphorically. At dusk, the world is in a state of transition from daylight to nightfall. We, too, are in a transitory state as we pass through this life, emerging into light at birth, and into shadow at death. The way the film slowly progresses from one frame to the next reminds me of the transient nature of our existence. The moon pulls us from scene to scene in much the same way as its phases influence all life on this planet.
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