Six
Episodes
1.
In a raspy voice
the hailstorm
spoke.
The hailstorm
chased
electric mice.
The kittens slept and
dreamed
of blue railyards.
2.
She opens the window
to a silk city.
A goldfinch beaks
the winter's soft
nerve.
3.
In the streets,
a martyr bleeds
and hears God's voice.
Immortal tigers
ride the sun.
4.
Two sparrows embrace
in the garden of the
heart.
I carry the wind
in my hair
and appear at your door—
my bones illumined
by your gaze.
I know your lips are
ageless rivers.
5.
On a violet dawn,
the sand becomes a
prayer.
The Cassiopeia touches
and bepaints the earth,
terpsichores.
6.
A man reads the
newspaper
and asks for
lunar coffee.
Our breaths
enlace
at the storm's carnival.
Talismans
Through the night
soft halo explosions,
immortal routes
and
inner blooms,
space craze boom leap embryo
rain, rain
thrill omnivores,
this carnival,
occulting
light,
reason is an acrobat.
“You said I
smelt of dusk”
You
said
I
smelt
of
dusk,
your
wild
wind
at
dusk,
stay
with me
in
this
difficult
love,
the
stars will come out soon
and
the pottery
of
light
will
resume
in
this
hot month's
garden.
A Nocturne for Inamorata
Sky-mermaids
yodel
to
summer,
we
are in
a
marshy moment’s
frenzy—
your
forests of ochre and ardour.
Barachiel
besprinkles
rose
upon the hot desert and the dream-eyed camels,
Sandalphon
guards
the
children of a white summer,
Israfil's
song
resonates
in
moondust mansions and mulberry
orchards—
then
our
dialogues
in water.
“Among this scented tea
and
wine,
let’s speak of love,
art
and religious warfare.”.
You
ignore
the
rumours
and
navigate
through
the hair of my history
with
tender fingers—the pregnant dolphins of light.
I
hiss at your nocturnal mouth's solace,
we
even breathe
silk.
Quietness
1
A summer
rolls away
towards
violet velds;
in the cafeteria of moonlight,
a kyanite horse
eavesdrops
upon the rainy interludes.
2
Blue roses
in rain,
I divine
the extirpation
of Gog and Magog.
3
Rivers
of light,
Akbar's
ice hockey twilight box.
4
The light of fireflies
wraps the earth
at dusk,
ten flower villages,
thimbles, Solomon's Seals and klees,
wildflowers and ghosts,
my tongue
is protest's journal.
5
Arhats
of the throbbing
forests,
summer
is asleep,
leaf and silence.
6
Muscadelle
nights,
asymmetric lunar
eagle,
I walk with Muhammad and Musa.
7
Leaves
in wind;
Isa brings to life
the war-martyred Russians
my valorous brothers,
no sacrifice
was in
vain—
rising solar meadows.
8
Misty road, greyshine.
Lamps
of heaven, infinite waking river,
waking winter.
9
Golden songbird,
oceanic heavenly bisonry.
10
Joseph of Copertino
levitated, chanted the Virgin's name—
the dance ecstatic.
The blind eyes
of Richard Church
sang with light,
the people and
the city
pulsating ornaments.
Inam Hussain Begg Mullick is an award-winning Kolkatan polymath. His most recent book of poems is The Magical Life of Inamorato (Writers Workshop). He is the Director-Founder-Editor, The Kolkata Arts. Inam teaches Creative Writing.
Six Episodes was previously published in The Kolkata Arts and Durgapur Review. The rest were published in the book The Magical Life of Inamorato by Writers Workshop.
