WEEKEND FEATURE – THE STUNNING POETRY OF DEVIKA MATHUR

Hello Everyone,

Literary Revelations fervently wishes you an extraordinary weekend! We are thrilled to showcase the poetry of Devika Mathur, a talent that captivates the heart and soul. We truly hope you will embrace it with open arms.

BIO

Devika Mathur is an Indian poet, writer, educator, and editor. Her work has appeared in The Alipore Post, Madras Courier, Modern Literature, Two Drops of Ink, Dying Dahlia Review, Pif Magazine, Spillwords, Duane’s Poetree, Piker Press, Mojave Heart Review, Whisper and the Roar, and more. She is the founder of Olive Skins and the author of Crimson Skins. Her poetry is also featured in Sunday Mornings River, Parcham, and Poets Espresso Review.

6:03 am, First Crow

A single crow breaks the silence—
not a caw, but a cracking open,
a fracture in the skin of morning.
Stillness parts like wet paper.
Somewhere, a kitchen light blinks—
yellow, artificial, stubborn.
The trees, half-asleep, don their shadows
like silk kimonos shrugged over bare shoulders.
A puddle holds yesterday’s sky,
creased and inverted,
and a worm writhes into prayer.
The air smells of ash and unopened letters.
A girl on the rooftop
feeds clouds to the wind,
her breath stitched with lavender and sleep.
And the sun, late as always,
arrives without apology—
an old god rehearsing
his lines beneath his breath.

Layover, 2:11 PM

Between boarding calls,
a moth flickers against the window—
soft body meeting glass like a question
no one asked.
My suitcase holds
a dried marigold,
your old receipt folded into a square
with your name half-erased by rain.
Someone’s perfume—clove or cumin—
briefly resurrects the kitchen,
and I am suddenly
where we never lived.
Where did you go?
The socks left behind. The books
we never bought.
Our bed with its one bent leg.
You said: I don’t write poems, I just forget them slowly.
And then you painted your dream on the wall—
a garden where birds spoke in Morse
and never stopped singing.
I touch the page.
It doesn’t bleed. But it remembers.

REMINDER

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What sets Kimura’s work apart is his unparalleled mastery of monochrome photography, which exquisitely captures the mesmerizing dance of light and shadows—transforming each image into a profound experience. The artist’s extraordinary photographic technique has garnered him countless awards and provided him with the opportunity to showcase his fervent dedication to beauty in art at numerous prestigious international exhibitions.