Poem 12 (8.1)

 

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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