Teesta Review: A
Journal of Poetry, Volume 8, Number 1. May 2025. ISSN: 2581-7094
Calcutta
--- Sekhar Banerjee
Does
a tree in autumn know
how
leaves tumble
down
the irregular steps
in
the spiral staircase
of
air
like
a whole concert?
The
last note is a major – a C in
pathos,
in
the broken harmonium
of
sunlight.
And
a silence afterward, long enough
to
hear
after
the fall.
I
won’t remember you.
I
won’t forget you.
I
won’t talk about you.
I
won’t stop thinking about you.
I
won’t utter your name again.
Your
name is safe on my lips.
I
have already learned how to exist in
a
beautiful labyrinth
by
becoming friendly to it.
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Bio:
Sekhar
Banerjee's poetry collections include The Fern Gatherers'
Association and Probably Geranium. His works have
appeared in various international and national anthologies, journals, and
magazines, such as Stand Magazine, Berkeley Poetry Review, Poetry
Wales, Indian Literature, Arkana, Cha- an Asian Literary Journal, The Yearbook
- Indian Poetry in English, Building Bridges Anthology and elsewhere. He
received the Arkana Editor's Choice Award in 2023 from the
University of Central Arkansas and the Suprabha & Santiranjan Sengupta IPPL
Book Award for his book ‘Probably Geranium’ in 2025.
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