In you often I find the ever active
director of crime thrillers,
unwilling to solve puzzles till the end.
And I wait for the end
which never smiles, like the heaven,
we all love to imagine.
Puzzles are great cobwebs,
difficult twists and turns,
full of unending excitements.
I live in the delirium,
day in and day out, —
trying to invade unresolved
cobwebs;
in all my drowsy,
uncertain movements.
Aneek Chatterjee is a poet and academic from Kolkata, India. He has published more than six hundred poems in reputed literary magazines and poetry anthologies across the globe. He authored 17 books including five poetry collections titled, “Seaside Myopia” (Cyberwit, 2018), “Unborn Poems and Yellow Prison” (Cyberwit, 2019), “Of Ashes and Persiflage” (Hawakal, 2020), “Archive Avenue” (Cyberwit, 2022) and “Last Evening Was A River” (Penprints, 2024). He also co-edited the “Poetry Conclave Year Book 2022” (Authors Press). A Nominee for the prestigious Pushcart prize, Dr. Chatterjee received the “Alfredo Pasilono Memorial Panorama International Literary Award 2023”, conferred by the Writers Capital Foundation. He was a Fulbright Visiting faculty at the University of Virginia, USA and a recipient of the ICCR Chair (Govt. of India) to teach abroad. His poetry has been archived at Yale University. He can be reached at: [email protected]