FRESH AIR

 

The Cultural Reverence 

 #WeekendPublication August 01, 2026

My poem appears in the digital magazine THE CULTURAL REVERENCE.

 

FRESH AIR

If my world couldn’t be
what I had thought in my teens
I can’t help. I was
dependent on my father

a self-made man against
the currents I couldn’t read
the sky and its stronghold

the prints of the Ganga’s sand
have faded like the rainbow
in a spray of year
that pricks like pebbles

now the caries, cavities
cyst and myopia haunt
and sexual anxieties
disturb sleep and dreamless nights

the hairs on my balding head
mirror the laughter
I have ceased to take note of

I have ceased to peel 
the ugly shapes, the cunning
the treacherous I work with

resent my identity
and the future I fail
spinning influences


yet I’m sure when I stopped
it won’t be all that bad:
my vision would still be good
I would still smell fresh air

Author :  Ram Krishna Singh ©®
India
All Rights Reserved To The Author

Know the Author: Ram Krishna Singh, also known as 
R.K. Singh, is an Indian English poet, renowned for his haiku-inspired 
brevity, existential introspections, and erotic minimalism. A retired 
Professor of English at IIT-ISM, Dhanbad, he has published 
extensively on ELT, ESP (English for Specific Purposes), and technical 
communication, while his poems have appeared internationally in several 
journals, both print and online. His recent poetry collections include 
Poems and Micropoems (2023), Knocking Vistas And Other Poems (2024),  
Leaves of Silence (2025), and Drifty Silence and She (2025). Find him on X  

https://x.com/profrksingh  and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profrksingh. 

More at https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/R.K._Singh

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