Bajan

Stemware martini
Attacks stemware wine
Pens take note

Coffee beans rain down
Through bolts of glass
As tablas thunder

Dha Ga Dhi Ga Dha
Ta Ka Ti Ka Ta
Dha Ga Dhi Ga Dha Te Te Te Te Te Te Te Te

Shirtless skin boasts
Invincibly
Unconvinced it was him

Silver coil throbs
Against its broken spiral

Safety cowers in a stained wood box
With a bag of green cardamom
Some books
And a tape

Dha Ga Dhi Ga Dha
Ta Ka Ti Ka Ta

And a minefield moves into the womb

Dha Ga Dhi Ga Dha Ka Te Te Ka Te Te Ka Ta