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BEHIND
THE MIRROR
by
Rumjhum Biswas
What
goes on there,
everyday
Behind
that rock hard
illusion?
There
where light's
lisping ray
Becomes
a catastrophic
intrusion.
Who
are those whose
liquid lives
Lie
hidden from the
blare of yellow
bulbs?
The
ones whose steaming
whispers rise
To
their deaths as
the tall shadow
engulfs.
Mirror,
mirror on the
wall
You
who blithely speak
to all
Turn
around, slowly,
turn around
To
pose before the
diminished sound.
A
nail scratch on
mercury lets out
The
secret life of
one who is never
about
Listen,
listen well, and
see what you can
Of
this spasmodic
reel of a life
that ran
A
secret world,
it hardly ever
is
Yet,
much submerged
and concealed
Like
the dark matter
that lives
In
this universe,
unlearned unrevealed.
Yet
sometimes during
a wakeful night
The
mirror creaks
and turns around
An
opposite world,
eating light
Feels
about for the
touch of sound
My
flesh contracts,
my mind expands
I
move mirror wards
on clammy hands
I
see you all swimming
in the mirror's
jaw
And
my soul unscrews
to kiss that liquid
maw.
©
2008 by
Rumjhum Biswas
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About the Author
Rumjhum
Biswas's
prose and poetry
have appeared
in Muse India,
The Bare Root
Review, Etchings
(Australia) The
Little Magazine
India (India),
Eclectica, Nth
Position (UK),
The King's English,
Halfway down the
Stairs, Arabesques
Review, Crannog,
Clockwise Cat,
Chanterelle's
Notebook, Everyday
Fiction, A Hudson
View (South Africa),
Lily Literary
Review, The Paumanok
Review, Poems
Niederngasse (Switzerland),
Unlikely Stories,
Cerebration (UK),
Amarillo Bay,
Gowanus, Loch
Raven Review and
Southern Ocean
Review (New Zealand).
Three of her poems
have been published
by Unisun Publishers
(India) in their
2007 anthology
"The Silken
Web". Two
more poems are
forthcoming in
two separate anthologies
by Forward Press
of UK. At present,
this erstwhile
copywriter lives
and writes in
Chennai. She can
be contacted at:
rumjhumkbiswas@gmail.com
Website:
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