Istanbul Literary Review - January 2009 Edition (#13)
Istanbul Literary Review - January 2009 Edition (#13)
Fallen
by
Ashok Niyogi
In this lately found state of bliss
words are what I most miss.
As I do, the propensity
to be indecently intense
about the past
and in the future tense.
In the barter of chartered souls,
there was this language of wholes,
and fractions hid in dark alleys,
hardly hoping to be counted as goals.
And despite the gloom of mixed metaphors
I found that in the psalms I sing,
words are what I most miss,
not your ring that I once did kiss.
Istanbul Literary Review - January 2009 Edition (#13)
Ashok Niyogi
USA
Ashok Niyogi is an Economics graduate from Presidency College, Calcutta. 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 his time between California, Delhi and the Indian Himalayas. He has published a book of poems, TENTATIVELY,[iUniverse, Lincoln, NE – 1995] and has been extensively published in magazines in the USA, UK,Australia and Canada.
Istanbul Literary Review - January 2009 Edition (#13)
