Green flesh Tara[1]
 
for Angela D.
 
 
your breasts proud perfect  cubist circles 
match the hoops on your ears
 
and the black halo round your head
 
the handcuffs
rest so innocuously on your lap 
 
and the handcuffs
rest so
 
Cross-legged green flesh red skirted Tara
with hands in mudra pose
and dark 
dark dark 
eyes
that
pierce 
 
a 
 
belly button zone 

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[1] Published in Scripts, an international pan-queer journal which was released at the queer film festival LARZISH in Mumbai in 2003. This poem is inspired by an artwork by American new media artist Erin Currier.