Poetry – Issue 10
Pain/Takleef
bongaigaon
the caked muddy houses
the ponds
and the fish.
You cannot be from there
and still be here.
Mulberry Tree
the tree cast an afternoon shadow
that made my mother think
of the black eyes of crows, the running
water in the dark.
A Touch of Darkness
There is a beauty in piercing the darkness of judgment
by making love, finding freedom
in luminous iron chests – fragrant dahlias.