By Swarnendu Ghosh
YEARS OF YEARNING I see the horizon filled with ghosts of pre-owned wives and Insomnia dripping from rooftops. Those bodies… bodies with eternal youth emerge from utter darkness. Soft. Palpable to my carnal breath. They all are coming out and claiming me. A desire for a bonfire dance. I see insects dying like martyrs. Tomorrow, I will write an elegy in their memory. Maybe those walls still stand. Those rooms. Those battlefields and muses. Maybe we all recall our scars and moonlit longings and the enchantress who danced with us spitting fire. She is there tonight, preaching peace and death.
Swarnendu Ghosh is a poet from Kolkata, India, who writes in English and Bengali. His first book, Ferry Ghate Frida, is a collection of Bengali poems published in 2023.
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