Issue 1.4 - Samar Ghose

​Tabula rasa 
​

some who are near my heart
 
the song
in turn
is born
 
with one purpose alone
 
a stone
changes
within
 
minute by minute they live
 
a heart murmur
run
wild
​

Source: “Easter 1916” by W B Yeats (pg. 203) from Seven Centuries of Poetry in English edited by John Leonard, Oxford University Press. 

​*****

​Fraught
​

missing
 
a dog
strips the air
of fright
 
there is no breeze
 
trapped
the bruise
of a sky

she knows, she knows
 
no sound
is silent now
​

 ​Source: “Rhubarb” by Craig Silvey (pg. 41) publisher Fremantle Arts Centre Press.

 *****