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| Amit Shankar Saha |
Amit Shankar Saha is
the author of three collections of poems titled Balconies of Time, Fugitive
Words, and Illicit Poems. He has also published a collection of
essays titled A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Essayist. He is the
Editor-in-Chief of EKL Review. He has a PhD in English from Calcutta
University and teaches at Seacom Skills University. His website is www.amitshankarsaha.com
Ecology of Love
We
were born separated
by
the measure of time and space
like
a bioregion divided
by
political boundaries.
We
grew up as two countries
competing
to increase
our
carbon footprints
although
our climate was one.
But
fossil-fuelled love combusts
and
become just carbon dust.
This
burnt world is an infatuation,
it
has not progressed underneath.
Love
maybe as naked as nature
and
as still as the trees.
You
may not see it progress
Although
its roots run deep.
Silence of the
Sleet
What
if the world attains dystopia
and
we are the last beings alive?
You
work on your singularity somewhere,
I
on mine somewhere else,
trying
to discover each other
over
the remnants of ether,
like
a blind man trying to see
something
beautiful but too far to touch.
We
communicate with our devices
that
elude us from giving our locations,
we
crisscross deserts of ice
and
sail through the seas of sands
as
time like drops drip from the clock
while
we quest to someday meet,
fully
knowing that we are the last beings alive
and
the next is the silence of the sleet.
The World of
Vestigial Organs
The
ears of the sky
convalescent
in thunder
can't
hear your words.
The
skin of inhibition
covering
the rains
can't
feel your touch.
The
eyes of electric
coursing
in the wind
can't
see your face.
The
nose of the night
chilling
in the air
can't
breathe your breath.
The
tongue of the
corpulent
footpath
can't
taste your footsteps.
Love
is a cyborg
in
a world of organs
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