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| Ballari Sen |
Wild Strawberries
Harvesting chips of strawberries
with wild berries of pathos
signing off for a day
Endearing shoelace and powdered
grace of school uniform as we
return down the hill cart road
willows and chestnuts wither a breeze
Deep inside my breath
I leave myself on a tiny raft
scaffolding hues of a trodden past
Forest destined to grieve through
hidden doorways, the terrace beside
our guava trees when parrots swear
by a ripening
Each fragment of a year long produce
like thinking lines tend to perform
the lost hardening of guava flowers
slowly smearing
waves of kojagori alpona over my forehead
***Supernova
Billion star- ashes, how long will it take to evolve a darkness between, filling gaps
through you and me
Eternal dots, the three points tending to infinity, whom I call a measure of separateness in -between
Can I really stay without you tomorrow!
Like long tunnels, how we transformed into a summer solstice, mercury barged up, gathered wings, fireflies intoxicated with the flicker, the old thirst touched our necks to flames
You saw how I ruffled to another plumage, brutal killing stations, your face turned into a sharpened impostor overnight
That was when, few depths beneath a new love was born
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Bio: Ballari Sen,teaches Bengali Literature at Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College, Kolkata.Her writings are mostly in Bengali which fetched her the coveted Krittibaas award for her book named ‘Bihaan raater bandish’ in 2010.She joined the league of Indian English poets through her new poetry title ‘The Window Seller’ 2014,her maiden venture.As a researcher she has been working with the Centre for Linguistics , Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford (2012-2015) on the interface of Portuguese and Bengali.
Presently she is busy with her upcoming anthology of poems alongwith new avenues of linguistic research on the craft and diction of poetry.
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