GOWANUS Winter 2005 |
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Anando
Bhairavi
(Joy Destroyed) by Shakti Chattopadhyay (1933-1995) Translated by Anjana Basu |
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Today, in the same room, the picture’s tilted Unlike that lost monsoon’s last hours There were rain-drenched flowers in the garden Morning glory showers To this same field no cowherd comes
today
Didn’t she know bad times in haste
That of all the grand capitals we
know,
Today I’m here again, but the picture’s
tilted
((Anjana Basu's poems have been
featured in an anthology published by Penguin India. Her work has appeared
in Wolfhead Quarterly, Amethyst Review, The Blue Moon Review,
Kimera
and Recursive Angel.)
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