Obituaries

Birds on wings
damnation, exploratory ways
in manner implosive
Have no regrets life can’t kill ( all)
in mortgage of impossibilities news
of earthquake or, that of soldiers
killed in timeless borders of conflict
is one more,
cruising signature of how we love
stigmatizing wounded flesh
for – obituaries.

Ananya S Guha lives in Shillong in North East India, where he was born and brought up. He has been writing and publishing his poetry for the last forty years. His poetry has been published in both electronic and print formats such as: Indian Literature, Other Voices, Osprey Journal, Glasgow Review, The Literary Nest, Up The Staircase, Asia Writes, Art Arena, Praxis Online, Muse India, Your One Phone Call, In Between Hangovers, The Peeking Cat Magazine, Post Colonial Text among others. He has also written widely on educational and social matters. He has ten collections of poetry and his poetry has been anthologized in various collections of Indian poetry in English. He holds a doctoral on the novels of William Golding. Read other articles by Ananya S..