An evocative poem by Dr Tirthankar, exclusively for Different Truths.
I let you go and heard you say without fuss ‘adieu’. The last bus, dust-covered, panted like a mangy dog on a leash, dying to be released into the night. Blinking, it wobbled from side to side but was happy nonetheless to be untied.
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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