poetryrepairshop 04.03:025 Contemporary International Poetry online since 1997 Night Wind c2004 ANJANA BASU
	ANJANA BASU Night Wind The day rises and sets A gale blows out the sun And swims to drown the stars All night the wind tugs At my white netted bed While a thousand stars hold back The sea of air. The net whips and plays, A white stork swimming A winged brief message To a thousand centuries of light Day grounds it. The stars Return to their worlds While the wind whipped back Sulks like a scolded child.		University of North Dakota	04.03 025 026 028 028 025 030 031 032 033 034 035 036

poetryrepairshop 04.03:025 Contemporary International Poetry online since 1997 Orange Stein c2004 ANJANA BASU AllPosters.com

ANJANA BASU Orange Stein An orange is an orange is a mandarin is a tangerine Is a nimbu making sour faces Sharp as a knife sliced Teeth set on edge on a wall, salted With an edge of cut glass and a slide of pepper To sandpaper the sun on with a sliver of saliva, Squeezed nervously spits seeds in self-defense Like a blood moon like a sun like glass sliced

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