Yellow Mama E zine

Midnight and unnecessary chocolate

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by Partha Sarkar

 

 

Midnight. The glass is broken into pieces. The middle of the ocean. Diluted furniture.

Footprints.

 

Caution—"The holy place is not safe.” 

 

Equators. The eyes are closed. Doubt. Jaundice. Black sunglasses.

The brief lecture. The invisible fourth finger. A direction to the threshold.

Who flees?

 

Dreams remain alive for few seconds.

 

Heat from the advertisement. An agreement between two trade deals.

Precocious waiting. The farming land spreads its hand to the vacuum.

No one gives importance to the capital’s file.

 

And believing it’s the pesticide in the long run.

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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.