Contemporary Literary Review India | eISSN 2394-6075 | Vol 3, No 1: CLRI February 2016

Saronik Bosu

Locus

This is how people are made of places:

You smell the setting sun on them,

sometimes, not the fiery orb—

the verb. You smell the setting;

They come uninvited

They perch on your bed

And look! one end is a purple hill,

the other a crimson sea.

But this is how I know that you are not:

I look for you, even now

in between pen-scratches,

forcing meaning out of snatches

of words heard in the mist.

And beneath fairy lights,

The sense of a galaxy is swallowed by a star

The star whirls mindless until it’s some earth

Then ocean, then mountain, then city, then room

I travel down bloodily,

through places never you.

Saronika Bosu is a research scholar at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree. His interests range from representation of economic inequalities and religion to Mughal architecture, post-rock instrumental music and alternative comedy. He is an amateur actor and a shy poet. Poetry, for him, has been about survival.

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