Poetry Magazine
Imaginary Number
The mountain that remains when the universe is destroyed
is not big and is not small.
Big and small are
comparative categories, and to what
could the mountain that remains when the universe is destroyed
be compared?
Consciousness observes and is appeased.
The soul scrambles across the screes.
The soul,
like the square root of minus 1,
is an impossibility that has its uses.
Source: Poetry (February 2012).
Biography
Vijay Seshadri is the author of Wild Kingdom (1996), The Long Meadow (2004) — both published by Graywolf Press — and The Disappearances (HarperCollins India, 2007).
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, The Mind, Religion, The Spiritual
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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