Six Episodes—Inam Hussain Begg Mullick

Inam Hussain Begg Mullick is an award-winning Kolkatan polymath. He is the Director-Founder-Editor, The Kolkata Arts. 

 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.