Debasish Lahiri
Debasish Lahiri has authored five books of poetry: First Will & Testament (2012), No Waiting like Departure (2016), Tinder Tender: Poems of Love & Loitering (2018), Poppies in the Post & Other Poems (2020), Paysages sans Verbes (2021) and Tether that Light (2022). Lahiri is currently on the editorial board of Gitanjali & Beyond (Scottish Centre for Tagore Studies). He is the recipient of the Prix-du Merite, Naji Naaman Literary Prize 2019.
Poems by Debasish Lahiri
The kingfisher’s daydream: rivers under the sun –
rain has crept up the daydream like an ant.
The kingfisher bites raindrops: it will rain fishes soon.
rain has crept up the daydream like an ant.
The kingfisher bites raindrops: it will rain fishes soon.
Debasish Lahiri
GALLERIES IN THE NIGHT
Abandoned by all kindly lights
To gnash their teeth
In penumbras of their own making,
What half-bitten talk
Peoples the dark galleries
Between masterpiece and masterpiece,
Restrained...