Tanuj Solanki 
Spring 2016

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No day no dream

Chaste cuddles          reality is sheer in fragments

like hairfluff          the maxim simply that it resists closeness

so much          The situation on my bed on an August day

of togetherness          A daydream is neither day nor dream but a joining

Like liplock          or like hammernail and blankstare and sundrag

and fourlegs          One then had to boil chai and speak softly.

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Tanuj Solanki lives and writes in Bombay. His fiction has been published in The Caravan, Out of Print, and others. His first novel will be out in July, 2016, published by Harper Collins India.