ANIK SAMANTA

ANIK SAMANTA

BLOOD WINE

A heart overgrown with nettles

Shall catch fire

When you weep wine

The night is a mirror is a mouth

It speaks to the bones

The maze shall have overflown

With the tides of memory

Blood shall blossom

In syllables of wine-dark autumn

LOVE

My mouth adrift

In your ocean hair

My kisses burning

Like so many drowned stars

My eyes buried

In the blue of tidal love

My hands lost

In the dark night of your body

Poised beyond the meridian

Of despair and hope

SLEEP WORDS

Phosphorescence

Of sleep words

Keeps vigil in the night heart

The mirror disgorges unshriven

Light

Auroras of adolescence

Ageless

Overgo the green of spring

The grey of autumn

Bone dreams beat time

To the blood moon

Overgrown with word moss

ANIK SAMANTA

ANIK SAMANTA was born in 1983 and read English at Jadavpur University, where he is currently pursuing PhD. He is an Assistant Professor in English under the West Bengal Higher Education Service, currently posted at Govt. General Degree College Salboni, Paschim Medinipur. His book of poems Wordfall was published by Nandimukh Samsad in 2018. Apart from poetry his interests are Western classical music and photography.