Pieces of dice, and playing cards
found casually lying on an old-fashioned chair
and a wall-hanging portraying the face of a child,
close to the chair a tripod with a camera,
the corner of the room, dusky dark,
The scenario of an artist's den,
a statement upon the contents of art.
After aeons the door opens and a raven cries
with a piercing note to draw attention to
the obvious side of a forgotten art
that used the intuition with an uncanny precision
of the dice in the hands of a gambler, and the player of cards,
and the third eye of the cameraman hiding long behind a dark screen and a dark room
until the picture emerged.
Sushama Karnik.
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