Aisle of Returned Promises
By Jimmy Sharma
Your handwritten note folds into the air,
the margins still warm with you.
Your voice, velvet and near,
leaves an afterglow between the stacks.
I walk the aisle like a pilgrim,
spines leaning in as if to listen;
dust stirs, pages remember.
A single sentence hovers,
not claimed, only held;
a germ of meaning I cup like light.
Jimmy Sharma teaches English Literature at Kurukshetra University, Haryana, India. She did her PhD on the fiction of Amitav Ghosh from Panjab University, Chandigarh. She's the author of five books: Communicative English, Communicative English-I, Nayantara Sahgal: A Critical Study, Echoes Within: Poems, and Advanced Communicative English. Her poems have appeared in Muse India, Mad Swirl, Pangolin Review, Literary Yard, PPP Ezine, RIC Journal and elsewhere. Besides teaching, she tweets @intuitivepoetry and blogs on nature, language learning, human relationships, and psychology