Bio
Sreedhar Vinnakota is a theoretical physicist and writer from Chennai, India. His poems have been published in One Sentence Poems and Right Hand Pointing.
Sreedhar Vinnakota
Ahead
At the crossroads, a signal
holds me back like a mistress
turning red at the sight
of me sneaking out of bed.
Men with a mean streak whistle
past, making their passes
leaving us together, as if
we were inseparable lovers.
Tucked in the sheets
– of traffic –
I watch her changing
colours, thinking
to break free, and to get ahead
needs practice, and pressure
to be applied and absorbed
appropriately on the clutch.