Prof Ram’s poem in DifferentTruths.com captures summer’s fierce winds stirring dust, fossils, and primal quests amid terror’s cheek.

Suddenly, through the spring
blows hot the wind
circulating colours of summer
 
shabby roads and houses
dust inside outside
melt silence like tar
 
or bleach skulls that thought
once, now fossil-like rocks
in ageless hibernation
 
my quest ends or stirs
lewd rituals, stomping
about a fresh bit in thongs
 
I don’t know what it is
the cheek of terror or sweat of skin
or is the wind gasping for breath?

Picture design by Anumita Roy

Prof Ram Krishna Singh

Prof Ram Krishna Singh, also known as RK Singh, is a widely published, anthologised and translated poet with over 25 poetry collections to his credit. His recent poetry collections include Poems and Micropoems (Southern Arizona Press, USA, 2023), Knocking Vistas and Other Poems (Authors Press), Leaves of Silence: Poems and Micropoems (Authors Press), and Drifty Silence and She: Selected Poems & Micropoems (Edizioni Universum, Capri Leone, Italy, 2025).