Exile by Manash Bhattacharjee
Exile “I rested my mouth on your memory” ~ Yannis Ritsos, from Diaries of Exile [In the event of Greece…
Evening Light
Evening Light Brave bat in a bowler hat Blood shot eyes question What time does this light Depart? The light…
Tiger Head Sonnets
I An offering of grain; an offering of drink. Blind tiger forgive us for making you a stuffed head.…
This Great Beech
This great beech merges with my life. Each day its canopy of wind-carved branches filters nuances of sun as…
Summer Night Garden
Outside, night has shaken its sleeve. Moths mob the street lamp, dozens of tiny mandibles tear and munch. The…
Italian Air
A breathless train ride in the heat of things, I squeeze my red knees to the rough skin of…
Eighth Letter Akhmatova
Like a first love, the man you made from words instead of from snow, fitting him together like a…
Haiku on Kathmandu Earthquake by Sudeep Sen
Kathmandu Earthquake a prayer for Nepal Gods came tumbling down in Bhaktapur. Everest churned — snow, debris, death. Sudeep…
Self-Portrait as a Francis Bacon
You painted with a scalpel, each canvas a wound excavated by pain, the body always something flayed and suffering,…
Dog Fox Slips Under the Fence
You rely on light to steal his show, as if the pouring in will force out the richest secrets,…
L’Heure Bleue
in this last blue flash of dusk the violins of our eyes are playing to the south west wind’s…
Gospel Oak
The fight dog’s name, said its proud owner, was Jake, an old white bull terrier, brindle circle around his…
The Western Wynde John Taverner 1490-1545*
I walk in sunlit Christ Church meadows, the skies not Lincolnshire – the grazing cattle and unfamiliar deer –…
A Student of Rock-Pools
At the tremor of his footsteps Little transparent eft-like things sank And disappeared into the wet sand, But he…