A lyrical, bitter-sweet poem by Dr Tirthankar – exclusively for Different Truths.
Give her the right of way, the woman gave the geraniums one day more to breathe before being away. A drop of the sun in a broken cup was all the light she had in her little room, three steps up, in a house dreary and bleak, with a cat for a companion on a bed that creaked. From the windowsill, the geraniums cried for the right of way to be given to the woman in a shrieking ambulance.
Picture design by Anumita Roy, Different Truths
Tirthankar Das Purkayastha (b. 1956) is a Professor of English (retired) at Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. He has so far published three books of poetry in Bengali and many scholarly articles in academic journals. His translations of poems by Sunil Gangopadhyay have been published, with the poet’s approval, in South Asian Review and Indian Literature, a Sahitya Akademi journal. He has been regularly publishing poetry in all the leading journals of West Bengal.
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