So many years
at the altar
of unsure consonants
and quiet vowels,
diving headlong
into that vast landscape
of impermanence
where the remembered
and the invented
become one,
where all things
are one,
where nothing disturbs
the crystal symmetry
of silence and quarks,
where we return
each night with clenched fists
and even the wind
evades our grasps.
—–
Debarshi Mitra is a 21 year old poet from New Delhi, India. His debut book of poems ‘Eternal Migrant’ was published in May 2016 by Writers Workshop. His works have previously appeared or are forthcoming in anthologies like’ Kaafiyana’ and to literary magazines like ‘Typewrite’, ‘Thumbprint’, and ‘Leaves of Ink’. He is currently enrolled in an ‘Integrated PhD’ program in Physics.
