Telephone
Love came
In between telephone wires –
In between the leaves
Of the acacias
In my front rail.
The waving dress
In summer sun
And a subtle whiff
Of saffron and coriander
Wafting over some unknown window.
I waited
As the crow waits
On telephone wires
For leftovers from the lunch.
We haven’t spoken in ages.
Debarghya Ganguli pursued his M. Phil at the University of Calcutta and is a SACT at Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose College, Kolkata. He has been a visiting lecturer at multiple UG and PG institutions. His areas of interest are T. S. Eliot, Modern and Postmodern Theatre, Romantic Poetry, and Bengal Renaissance.
He has published several papers in notable publications nationally and internationally in various anthologies. His volume of verses Fables of Fibonacci was published this year. Two of his novels The Little Red Flower and Cradle are under publication from noted publishing houses.
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