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We Walked So High By Ashok Niyogi
they
brushed us by those
sinful stars they
threw darkness at us my
ochre robe so
pitiably poor now
hides lacerations in
skin embalmed by sin I
squirrel it in
the trash take
it out everyday very
early in the morning wrap
it about me and
tread slyly on
manicured grass with
measured dew do
you know back
in the mountains giants
of ice and rock gently
snore blood
and gore and entrails gasping
for oxygen thrash
about on
my ochre robe on
the fiery snow life
is in color so immediate yesterday after
they switched off the
strobe lights when
I went out on
to the patio to
smoke my injurious
to health cigarette I
looked up and saw a
subdued Orion and
three or four other stars above
the East Bay glow
Copyright © 2008 Ashok Niyogi |
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by Ashok Niyogi on SoMa Literary Review Ashok Niyogi is an Economics graduate from Presidency College, Calcutta, India. He made a career as an International Trader and has lived and worked in the Soviet Union, Europe and South East Asia in the ‘80s and ‘90s. At 52, he has been retired for some years and has been cashew farming, writing and traveling. He divides time between California, where his daughters live, Delhi, Goa on the Arabian sea, and the Indian Himalayas. He’s the author of the book of poems TENTATIVELY. |
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