Cow-Dustby Ashok Niyogisunset is when cows raise cow-dust this medicine shop will defreeze a galactic river cushioned on my celestial head and emerge gushing from a glacier shaped into a cow’s mouth sunset is when they ascended to heaven this weathered mountain bears witness footsteps on rock covered over by receding snow and a hairline that refuses to walk back into the nape of forests unexplained ©Ashof Niyogi Ashok Niyogi is an Economics graduate from Presidency College, Calcutta. He made a career as an international trader and has lived and worked in the Soviet Union, Europe and South East Asia in the '80s and '90s. At 52, he has been retired for some years and has been cashew farming, writing and traveling. He divides time between California, where his daughters live, Delhi and the Indian Himalayas. He has published a book of poems, TENTATIVELY, [ISBN : 0-595-33935-2] and has been extensively published in print and on-line magazines and in Chapbook form in the USA, UK, Australia and Canada. |