By Aneek Chatterjee
Resurrection
Some issues are so puzzling …
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Often I ask myself, where does the
mind stay …
In the brain, the heart or the eyes
or in the thin layer of the skin
when a touch ignites
irresistible passion
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and I get more confused …
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When I look up, clouds
paint me words, images,
I lost in a forest of bricks
of dingy bylanes;
in the asphalt of avenues,
smell of markets.
Clouds, white, black or sepia
hold me inside, and I float …
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I float and finally
descend down on
the skin of narrow bylanes
And avenues;
in the heart of the city center,
And discover me there
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Fresh as ever
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About Time & Pride
Sometimes I’m ahead
of the time I yearn to be.
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The magical night laughed at me
I was at the airport, and the next
flight to Nice was in the morning,
eleven hours later.
I didn’t know how I beat time
when I slept on the floor,
with my cabin bag as pillow and
my left hand inside the strap,
as if it contained hundred
years’ of accumulated wisdom.
I didn’t know how I beat time
and possible cheaters.
A little drunk
and the night passed in a whimper,
aimed at transborder
lumpens.
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In the morning, I found
my bag open, and some coins
and papers on the floor.
I picked up all and realised
these actually escaped
my powerful pocket.
I searched for my toothbrush
and saw in the electronic board that
my dream had left for Nice.
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Howled at the beginning and
then laughed, pitied me and time
lazily at the washroom,
always my best bunker;
and waited for the next flight
eight hours later.
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I’m still ahead of my time,
yearned pride & dream.
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Aneek Chatterjee is a poet and academic from Kolkata, India. He has been published in reputed literary magazines and poetry anthologies across the globe. His recent credits are: Chiron Review, Shot Glass Journal, The Stray Branch, Chicago Record, Ann Arbor Review, Dissident Voice, Café Dissensus, Setu, Ethos Literay Journal, New Asian Writing, Pangolin Review, Montreal Writes, Mark Literary Review etc. He authored two poetry collections named “Seaside Myopia” & “Unborn Poems and Yellow Prison”. Chatterjee has a ph.d. in International Relations; and has been teaching in leading Indian and foreign universities.
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