Poetry
Spring 2001
Recovery 30
From the Bengali. February 16, 1941 (Afternoon) Dusk drops down slowly—bindings loosed one by one from the work-nets of hours. Day casts the west's opening portal into gold-luminous darkness, meeting […]
Poetry
Spring 2001
Sickbed 5
From the Bengali. November 4, 1940 Under this vast universe pain's mill wheel rotates, grinds planets and stars to powder. Sparks flash, scatter suffering on every side, ash-webs from annihilated […]
Poetry
Spring 2001
Sickbed 7
From the Bengali. November 12, 1940 (Night) Deep night-interior, beneath my clouded sight, when I see your wakened presence, the sky's uncounted planet-suns in limitless time greet my mortality. After, […]
Poetry
Spring 2001
Birthday 8
From the Bengali. May 6, 1940 Ripping the breast off my birthday today, news of the death, leave-taking of a friend, has arrived. My own fire-grief burns— enkindles. On evening's […]
Poetry
Spring 2001
Last Poems 2
From the Bengali. May 7, 1940 Death-eclipse lowering shadows cannot devour life's sacred nectar into the clutches of matter. This I know for certain. No thugs live in earth's caves, […]
Poetry
Spring 2001
Last Poems 4
From the Bengali. March 26, 1941 Sun-heat drones this afternoon alone. A glance at the empty chair— there is no comfort in its breast full of words of despair, weeping. […]