Between Lovers and Ghosts: Three Poems by Goirick Brahmachari
Photo: Karan Madhok
Poetry: ‘Your absence floats in / Within my house of shadows, / And stale miseries, / Broken windows; breezing in / Lost islands of fog and snow.’
Missing
I escape a wait
Rushing between movie halls,
Between lovers and ghosts,
Killers of soul, superhumans
And scientists, writers in noisy cafes,
Augmented realities, snow
Storms, floating
From dimensions to dimensions,
I do not find you.
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The House on 12th Street (tanka)
Your absence floats in
Within my house of shadows,
And stale miseries,
Broken windows; breezing in
Lost islands of fog and snow.
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Almost Haiku
The lack of you—
Thick mist, shivers
A cold dream
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Goirick Brahmachari’s third book of poems, Wet Radio and other poems was published in 2017. His recent poems have appeared in Berfrois, Portside Review, The Bombay Review, Mad Swirl, Madras Courier and Nether among others. Nightwalkers (a collaborative volume of verses along with Debarshi Mitra) was published in 2022 by Writers Workshop, Kolkata.
