Tipton Poetry Journal – Spring 2022
Indiana Dunes Hardarshan Singh Valia When giant hands of glacier scoured a bowl in Paleozoic rocks you rushed to occupy it as if following a divine order, and held on to the retreating glacier while filling bosom with a sea of fresh water. A gatherer by nature you ended up providing shelter for all in and around the shore and watched silently the life blossoming amidst the industrial roar while teeming cities competing to touch the sky. After a long haul of the glaciation, it’s time to celebrate the arrival of the season of interglacial period with country fair, rides, corn-on-the cob, funnel cake, and under the moonlit sky, watch the Theater on the Lake presents The Sanctity and the Vulnerability of life.
Hardarshan Singh Valia is an earth scientist by profession living in Highland, Indiana. His poems have appeared in Wards Literary Journal, Northwest Indiana Literary Journal, Poetic Medicine, Who Writes Short Shorts, Dove Tales – Writing for Peace- an anthology, Pages Penned in Pandemic – A Collective, Caesura, Sage-ing, Literary Veganism, Right Hand Pointing, COVID tales journal, Poetry and Covid, and Nightingale & Sparrow.
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