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Dead Pigeons, 13.05.09 Bagnan, West Bengal, India

And beautiful those days were 

Sometimes beside the village river,

The nameless flowers into light of dusk

perhaps whispered.

Sometimes one or two kingfishers

broke the silence of the river in a 

sudden twittered.


For how long, I have not seen sparrows

into blind lanes of our town,

Under the shades of high rise buildings

when the sun would set,

I ran to the roof to find west horizon.


Then two owls would come in my window

They kissed and parted into darkness

And I asked myself whether it was love.


And today I compare your eyebrows 

with some red desert.

And your smile with the beaming moon,

And your hands with the leafless twigs

And your legs with the awkward trunks

And I draw your eyes with the feather of

dead pigeons.


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