Poetry at Sangam

SangamHouse

 










THE SLOW TURN OF WATER by Srishti Dutta Chowdhury

the man reaches the ground, lowered in

waves. a hollow grave holds no

desire for the dead. every seed tinged in pomegranate crimson.

from between his legs, the

organ of slow demise. she felt its waft from

over the ground. bowing down, the hands only

reach the chest of grass. the

desire for hair in earth, soft, sometimes

fluid. I know the shape of hard.

skeletal. their boat drowns in

gentle gyration.

the wind has sung this dirge already. you

can write loss in this- the plump, the firm kind.

another centre merges perfectly into the margins, a slow

dive.

 
 

SRISHTI DUTTA CHOWDHURY