Page 13 - October 2020

Accident

Aritra Sanyal

How poetic it is to decipher an accident from splinters strewn across the road

We could see tremors within amorous women if we could see sound in this way

If everything I can recall is true, the world is supposed to be slightly larger in size.

A dog is seen chasing the dying light of the day

There in the woods is a person frantically fumbling his pockets. He went missing.

Your frowns are pricking the scene like thickets –
I want to go missing

I don’t know where in my body my address lies

Scribbled notes on a piece of paper blink like a traffic signal for a moment – and
then there is nothing

For a long time I did not travel far from here. I am lost right here, in time

Aritra Sanyal is a poet,
translator, researcher, an
amateur photographer
and an ex-sports journalist
(The Statesman). He
chiefly writes in Bengali
and is the author
fivebooks of poetry. He is
the recipient of Sunil
Gangopadhyay Award
(2018) conferred by Kabita
Academy, an institution
for poetry organized by
the Government of West
Bengal, India