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about this dance form in pantomime harlequins with lots of sweat magical wild boar determined to dig for fragrant roots that are upside down the lord of sound laughs like thunder and in laughing cures touch and feel these big rain drops that sting my eyes hands upraised I supplicate and laugh and laugh make the heavens tough so the stars know like the eyes of the common crow ©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. |