Two Poems by Deeptesh Sen
Nowhere girl
nowhere girl
mutating into moonlight
away, away from love
your breasts taste like vinegar
under the whirring motion of the fan
on a hot, tropical night
gazing into starlight and dust
your eyes wean off
the soft chorus of nightfall
moonlight floods the room
and crafts a mirror in your eyes
as the soft combustion of flesh
clouds out our vision
inside the well of light
noiselessly
we’re coiled like a starfish
naked in each other’s arms
we feel the night explode inside us
softly tracing like a virtuoso
the palimpsest of memories
along the scars on our skin
hips, breasts and laughter
all tangled up in silence
the luminosity in your eyes
builds up a moment’s desolation
crushing, gurgling, slurping, devouring
like matter spinning out of control
as we watch the distances disintegrate
between us
when our bodies are done with the lovemaking
like an automated response
you get up to close the curtains
the arguments of the evening
along with the insufferable stench of garbage
and loud barking of dogs
spiral back into my body
with the suddenness of an intruder
even the night is gaping
on your permafrost lips
in self-contained amazement
darkness engulfs us again
and I watch with a sigh
the light go out of your eyes
Combustion
blue ossicles of pain
spinning combustion
translates gradually
into the intimacy of meteors
we do not talk of love
language fell off her skin
into the cold gaze of slowness
dissolving
into fatigued circles
naked under light
the room spreads
like a mad man’s laughter
two faces in the mirror
fuck fuck fuck
only my neurosis
feeds the orbital beast
invisible light spins the crows into motion
gyrating thunder
of dead men stuck forever
on your glasses
misting
multiplying fault lines
you cannot love me
this spontaneous abortion
of desire and forgetting
traces the faith
of the rose in the oven
wilting
withering in light
centuries pass away
untangled birdsongs
pleading through the crust
the slurp inside the skull
the quick turn of voices lilting
and fading out
a million tiny explosions
inside the cold gaze of slowness
and only my neurosis
feeding the orbital beast
fuck fuck fuck
and now I am sinking forever
into the heart of light…
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