It begins on the living room floor you lie on the slightly damp carpet And stare at nothing If you look back that seems to be the one thing you did over the summer […]
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 […]
Publisher : Sabiha Huq, Professor of English, Khulna University, Bangladesh
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