Volume 5 | Issue 1 | April - May
2011 |
An Autumn, 3000 years old
Arunansu Banerjee
rawboned Tutankhamun:
blackened face, teeth, jutting out-
biting into memories, hardened skin
chapped by eon old fungi
hollow of eyeballs: craters dug deep
in earth’s epidermis
inert remains embalmed, encased in gold,
guarded by Anubis
funerary bouquets: lilies, roses, lotuses
sans fragrance and hues, dwell with Ka
a breeze moans through a once-verdant
meadow
Arunansu Banerjee - Arunansu Banerjee, from Calcutta, West Bengal, India, has been writing poetry only a few years but the art and craft were rooted in him long before his work appeared on web forums such as Soul to Soul, Here & Now, Kritya and The Peregrine Muse. Arunsansu is a teacher by profession, with a degree in physics and a specialty in softwares. His primary love is listening to Indian Classical music. Favorite poets include Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Rabindranath Tagore, Li Po, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda and Matsuo Basho.
