SELECTED LOVE POEMS BY SHASWATA GANGOPADHYAY Bath The soap you smear over your body,that's scented with herbal dust,thats myself,you know,my dried up lips Whenever you smear it,undressed,with none in the bathroom It's none but me you look at, from behind the mirror I clasp and grasp you stealthily with kisses on your shoulder,as if both of us standing under the shower,in the small notch of an eroded stone After this will start the festival of our caresses,as if It's a bulk of swinging white grasses on the riverfront Juicy sap of almond turned into watery paste, smeared all over the body,like the leaves of winter I'll drop and fling all dead cells from your skin with fingers 'Waves and nothing but waves you've to look on Is there any island nearby?' putting your mouth on the lobe of my ear, And clasping me whisperingly,you just want to float As the moments like bubbles fade into the time infinite You'll cover my body with foams and froths
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And will spread out my breath with yours
The Silk Road Literature Series 2021
