Tag Archives: Susmit Panda

To Whom It May ConcernFrom the bridge’s end a voice: Much sorrow, much grief there is—or where we liveis not the world, and we should jest and jiveas if the feet had shed their marrow.Dead, you think you won’t die again. Rocks like a flame your lifted hair.In time the woods will catch, and everywhereContinue reading “3 poems by Susmit Panda”

After-Dinner Walk On The Terrace If only I could set things straight, I might. But I am spent! I miss my family. Has brother left the building for the night? The sink is chockablock, the TV’s bright And muted, roaches raid the cutlery. If only I could set things straight, I might. Isn’t it time?Continue reading “4 poems by Susmit Panda”

Plaything Zip it! Don’t tell me that the world’s a hard place, man. I am the youngest of the Matryoshka clan. Don’t let no demon child dismantle, one by one The mother, daughter and the baby son. She sees, on my behalf, the dark, dark sky; She sees, on my behalf, how human beings cry.Continue reading “Plaything. a poem by Susmit Panda”

Jottings On a Winter Morning It’s sad to be a normal girl in a room with a yellow wallpaper. Yet I am one who is lonely like shit, an uninhabited house crawling all over with sun-glazed orbwebs…I would be one spreadeagled in DH Lawrence’s sun, & raise my belly to the furthest arc of myContinue reading “5 poems by Susmit Panda”

God I found you dying of thirst in the woods. You would not have a draught of water. Only Thick sips of gore, the gore of kids & birds Or human gore would slake your thirst. So, coldly, I tore into my brother’s brain & scooped A chunk of flesh & pulped it on yourContinue reading “3 poems by Susmit Panda”