Yellow Mama E zine

Rescue work after sickness

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by Partha Sarkar

 

The foggy glasses.

The sunlight in the crops, yet a dropping bulbul awaits dewdrops.

No bright sentiment in the coffin.

“There are still golden letters in the moribund hemisphere…”

Yet anesthesia is forgotten.

 

A one-legged swim competition with vacuum.  

A broken bewilderment.

Date after date.

Dead seagulls at turbulent midday.

And I never had a passport to cross the bathtub to meet the squirrel.

Any regret?

 

The posterity.

The Black Hole.

Where should the star of peace dine?

 

Gradually, a chariot with a fizzy pimp crawls to dig stones.

After several suicides, it loses calcium in the ancient afternoon.

One must not chew the timetable to identify the green skull.

 

           Partha Sarkar is a resident of Ichapur, a small town in the province of West Bengal of India. A graduate, he writes poems being inspired by the late Sankar Sarkar and his friends (especially Deb Kumar Khan) to protest against social injustice and crime against nature. His poems have been in different magazines, both in Bangla and in English. Once he believed in revolution, but now he is confused because of the obscurity of human beings, though he keeps the fire in his soul despite it.  

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        Bernice Holtzman’s paintings and collages have appeared in shows at various venues in Manhattan, including the Back Fence in Greenwich Village, the Producer’s Club, the Black Door Gallery on W. 26th St., and one other place she can’t remember, but it was in a basement, and she was well received. She is the Assistant Art Director for Yellow Mama.