scholarly responsibility

To invite. To speak. To name. To confront.
To bring into being. To come into presence.
To be present. To imagine. To make possible.
To be radical. To be unfinished.
To be “radically unfinished”.
To look in. To throw “outward towards the world”.
To question. To remember. To interrupt.
To be educable. To be educative. To be.

course

Imagine a course.
Would you like to run it?
What if you chose to walk,
with thoughts coursing by?
Imagine that it rains just then.
Where do your thoughts go?
What happens to the course?
Of thought. of action.

scholar

Scholar. Educator. Citizen.
Suspended on the hinges
of a trepid in-betweenness
held together, in solid precarity.
What do your books say? What
solace is there in others’ words?
Tell me, what do you want to believe
about yourself, and this new calling?

verse for wear

This halfway house used to be home.
Rendered half, I seek in jagged pieces
the peace we had once known, lived.
but yesterday is so much more distant
than memory’s hand can reach, and
remembrance is seditious. Much like
Junaid’s skull cap. The Constitution.
And Gautam Navlakha’s spectacles.