THROUGH MY WINDOW
There is a craze for usurping
in the name of calibrated progress
spiralling up to the zenith
jostling towers calcify
shooting from ribs of denuded green
a blanket of concrete envelops
my city in aggressive strides
birds fly away making room for
flyovers swooping over the lungs,
hold captive glory of greenery
guillotined in avenues of sadism,
an interplay of felling and forming
maps a cataclysmic change
in chirpy echoes of receding lines
the rhythm of limbo rings soulfully
as I seek the sky irrecoverable
through the concrete heaviness
of my window.
AMITA RAY
AMITA RAY, a former associate professor in English and Vice- Principal of a college is based in Kolkata. She is a translator, short story writer, and poet. She has five volumes of translations and a collection of short stories to her credit. Her collection of poems titled Until Birds Sing was published in 2022. The collection of short stories Trail of Love and Longings has received rave reviews.Her translation of Abanindranath Tagore’s Khirer Putul has been inducted in the post-graduate English curriculum of Burdwan University.