Classroom

Classroom at 9.30 A.M.

Classroom at 12.10 P.M.

-Brian Mendonca 

The classroom 

waits

For students

to step in.

Fans whirring

tubelights on.

Fringed 

by the Asoka

and Neem trees

This is my perch

among the birds.

From 10 to 1

the sun 

moves to shadow

as futures are made

on desks of wood.

(30 October 2026

Goa)