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This is how air digests wind – Five poems on grieving by Pushpanjana Karmakar Biswas

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December 1, 2021
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Terrace

 

The crow perches on the mast of the terrace

sailing in the waters of my womb.

 

The wind battered clothes sway on the clothesline

This is how air digests wind.

 

The blue and yellow water tankers

are stamps of houses collected by telescopic eyes of a philatelist.

 

It is from here that screams of loss and triumph emanate after every cricket match or hide and seek.

 

The silent beat of thudding, racing footsteps

keep track of one another through the echo-locomotion of absences.

 

It is teeming with faces of people I do not want to grow with.

 

But this space should hold water in my next births;

in times when my mind is a vacant terrace like one of those vulnerable, dilapidated houses of Calcutta

 

 

The Mulch

 

I uproot the plants

Pumpkins, bittergourd, tomatoes, pui shaak (Malabar spinach)

The tendrils roll around your clawed sclerotic fingers

The wet earth smells of your pillows and unwashed dressing gowns

you changed so often in Calcutta and Delhi summers

I used to tell myself that I was born in that sweat – the water in your womb

Now they keep the plants alive in the scorching Delhi heat

The earth forms creases from the forehead of the Himalayan lumber-collector

The English proverbs you taught me brew in the tea I make for myself

that I drink in your blue-pottery cup

The tendrils rise

to clutch you

Only to lose the grip

in your stunned pilgrimage to disappearance.

 

 

Is grief edible?

 

This is not ending

I am eating rice

In the constant squish of starch

inside my mouth

the mountain stream runnels down

in the buttoned silence of the night.

 

A  small nameless bird

hops to the tip of the branch

of the nameless tree

 

A rat tears the potato sack

in the warehouse.

 

A pavement dweller

counts the threads of his tattered sleeping rug.

 

A  dog barks

at the clothes waving on the clothesline

 

The dead sleep with the living as well

Ultrasonic thoughts enter the dream

blowing wind on the dread

 

The clouds drift away from this sight,

ceaselessly

without any refrigeration in the beholder’s eyes

 

how many births does it take for a cloud

to make them matter to the firmament?

 

how many times  should I chew food

to make edible my grief?

 

 

Minne (Memory in Swedish)
Memory is a fire tender
Scaling up facades
Rescuing anecdotes, whims, a sight, a lover, a hard bone betrayal
From the blaze in the hippocampus.

Memory is a gurgle inside the mouth
Swishing agony
inside the whirl of motivated past.
Each life inside the mouth-cave
is a bird at night
ending its restlessness to fly.

Memory is a froth
The newest bubble snaps the previous
In the bartender mix
Of a sentiment tucked in pretence.

Memory is a rain-dyed road
Phalanges of wet leaves
leading us to green fingerprints
of things that are unlikely

yet so endearing.

 

 

Warp and Weft of Tears

 

There is no water

        Grief is stillborn

A lasting fatigue, a dampness

held by mandibles of dilapidated houses.

Nothing would leak.

 

It gathers to form a bobbin,

And the spool of tears unfurls never-ending, fitting no textile of the mind

The warp and weft are lines of desperate reconciliations,

Only to be tangled in poorly woven irretrievable knots of fibre.

Born and raised in Kolkata, Pushpanjana Karmakar Biswas has contributed poems to magazines like The Harvest Millennium, Kritya, and Poetry India: Enchanting Echoes (All India Poetry Competition), Coldnoon Poetics and one piece of fiction to Indian Review. She currently works as a corporate lawyer in Delhi. She is also a part of a poetry group Moonweavers in Delhi. She has one upcoming publication in Kitaab journal.In pursuit of discovery of the core of a human heart, she likes to portray the unspeakable wrench seated in the souls of a human being in the backdrop of overflow of superficial catharsis on the internet in respect to human relationships, loss and resuscitation.

 

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