In this poem, Dr Sanjukta navigates the enigmatic territory between the present and beyond in a chaotic world of fragmented identities – exclusively for Different Truths.

Stately, perpendicular
Peripatetic, free flow
Jig-saw puzzle
In bits and pieces
 
Gymnastics and gyration
When and where
Which is in play
The Chess player
Immersed in
Subterranean identities
 
Ideologies, Ideas
Fixated, flexible
Churning wildly
Mismatched
Chaotic I-dentities
In a dizzying whirlpool
Virtual fantasies
Real so Unreal
Split, fractured,
Shards and labels
 
I stand tall
I bend double
I am in trauma and in trouble
I playfully remain
A blundering bubble
Between Here and Hereafter.

Picture design by Anumita Roy

Dr Sanjukta Dasgupta

Dr Sanjukta Dasgupta is a poet, short story writer, critic, and translator. She was a General Council of Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, member and the Convenor English Advisory Board Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. She is the President of the Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library, Kolkata and has twenty-six published books. Her poems have been translated into German, Serbian, Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Kashmiri, and Tamil.

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