1 Tonight, you who thought of the moon, a slice of scorched bread talk your curiosity into the finest café, swallow the finest food not fine enough to satiate your indigestible guilt and not fine […]
I keep straddling between caffeinated words. My fingers are anaemic. I sleep. Evenings zoom into the hollowed darkness of grief. Strangers walk all over my dusty shroud. The lilies on the shelf look like […]
Voices inside the head. Blurred with time. Dreams come with a strange whirring sound, like a machine almost a machine that needed oiling. I do not remember sleeping with a bubble gum Something […]
The air is slick with the stench of tomorrow, and I can no longer find the remnants of today. As of now, the “What if’s” feed me. I am overfed. Before the great fall, […]
Original: “Swarga Hote Biday” by Samar Sen Translation: Utpal Chattopadhyay The ocean has ended. Today the restless darkness flails its wings, like a bird in flight. The ocean has ended. There are no deer […]
Original: “Jibana Jakhana Shukaye Jaye” by Rabindranath Translation: Utpal Chattopadhyay When life becomes parched and dry come to me with the flow of your gentle kindness. When all loveliness vanishes from sight, come to […]
The night has settled for a long time already, I have found refuge there, in the plight of the steady. Against the world for its noise and filthy commotion, On the pillow I rest, while […]
The wind always seems to interrogate me, Which is why I detest it. Nature always seems to make me pay my dues Which is why I fear it. And the loathing? A bounty for not […]
In the sky downcast by stifled doubts that haunt, A vicenarian, a woman, she doth roam, Conscience heavy, guilt about a daunting font, Through solitude, she hunts for an idyllic home. She yearns to abscond […]
A wrinkle carved out on my fallen face, like a bad fold on my lifeline. A crevasse where their passages, their lies, and vile deceptions still nestle. One gray strand amongst my thick Lucious field […]
Publisher : Sabiha Huq, Professor of English, Khulna University, Bangladesh
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