(for Antony Owen) bones roll emptily in failed bodies the puddle of skies so brilliant likeness of mouths fractured into the musk of food each air strike spangles eyes in every crevice millions across someone’s piano millions across your poem millions across my untitled sketches of babies so brilliant to scavenge their own deaths
— Read on iamnotasilentpoet.wordpress.com/2018/10/26/to-see-past-the-belly-or-yemen-by-debasis-mukhopadhyay/
to see past the belly or Yemen
Thanks Reuben Woolley for featuring this poem today on I am not silent poet (October 26, 2018).
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Debasis Mukhopadhyay is a poet from Montreal, Canada. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals & anthologies, including Posit, The Curly Mind (UK), Erbacce (UK), Manneqüin.Haüs, Yellow Chair Review, I Am Not A Silent Poet (UK), The New Verse News, Writers Against Prejudice (UK), Rat’s Ass Review : Love & Ensuing Madness, Algebra of Owls, Of/With, Walking Is Still Honest, Leaving My Shadow : A Tribute to Anna Akhmatova, Thirteen Myna Birds, Whale Road Review, Scarlet Leaf Review, Silver Birch Press, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, Revolution John, Down in the Dirt, With Painted Words (UK), The Wagon Magazine, Apple Fruits of an Old Oak, Voice of Monarch Butterflies, etc. His work has been nominated for the Best of the Net. He can be contacted at debmukhop@yahoo.ca or @dbasis_m on Twitter.
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Very powerful – that opening line in particular.
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Thank you!
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Reblogged this on The Salamander Chronicles – Don Beukes.
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Thanks for the sharing!
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You deserve it!
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Thanks again!
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