Poems by Chirantan Sarkar

(Painting by Sudeshna Majumdar)

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Sermons from Nowhere

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Now men will come from the shadows like rabbits.
Wind is blowing.
Cold wind grabs our ears and the edges of memory.
I remember your white fingers.
It was a sacrilege to send you back to your own shadows.

2

A desolate place like this will never cease disappointing
People with dead faces and fairies with lost wings.
Beneath the shadow of the half-closed windows
Three unlucky cats are slowly thinking of
Taking a final walk to the distant churchyard.

3

The howling dog also knows
Why the flowers wave in the breeze and the flames flicker
Why the wise fishes swim in water
And the falling leaf swirls with a very quiet sound
Why the dream fades and the soldiers march together forever.

4

I took my gun and vanished into the wilderness.
Nobody was weeping except my poor, little dog.
I watched the half-eaten moon
Hanging precariously to allure
The snakes, monks and the vagrants in the woods.

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Chirantan Sarkar is the author of three books of poems in Bengali: ‘Niralok’(2009), ‘Adhkhana Chand’(2016) and ‘Chidakas O Daliya Pataka’(2022). He is the co-editor of ‘Astrik’, a Bengali journal on poetry and aesthetics. His English poems were published in ‘Asian Signature’ and ‘Critical and Creative Wings’.

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