November passed by.
Paddy fields opened up
their souls for dates with the sun.
The city is busy, with glowing
street lights, showrooms, luxury
cars, fashionable men and women.
Songs of barren field don’t reach
alleys and houses here. Laughter and
dance have erected insurmountable walls.
The sun also wanted to go on a date
with the city; but it dared not expose
its bones and skins to blinding light.
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 four 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 His poetry has been archived at Yale University.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]