New poem published in the RIC JOURNAL on 6th November, titled Rayi

https://ricjournal.com/2022/11/06/rayi-vinita-agrawal/

Rayi

You will emerge from water
to make the bleak landscape of our minds
glisten with dreams.

A landscape that has known
the deep throb of thorns
piercing through the soft tissues of feelings.

The cries of a baby alone
can rupture the hard bone of longing
lying winded for decades in hot barren sands.

The other day
they discovered the remains of a whale
in the dry terrains of Arabia.

Perhaps Arabia was a sea once
or an ocean, its womb swishing
with aquatic creatures.

Perhaps a pregnant sting ray
will appear in our visions
like a fertility experience.

And convey
the future coming of children to our family
Convey, that inheritance has been bestowed on us.

Spirit children, referred to as Rayi, though invisible, live in definite centres such as waterholes, trees, rocks on both land and sea. The entry of the spirit child in the mother’s womb is always associated with a dream in which the father ‘sees’ or finds it.