Somewhere
Somewhere on a windowsill
of an autumn house
you now rarely visit
a wood-carved name
could not be wiped out.
Somewhere the name
awakes into light
like a speckled reflection
on the crinkled surface
of crumbling memories.
Somewhere a hurt
hidden under the bed
hibernates like a sequin
from a birthday party
you fail to recollect.
Somewhere the hurt
in your attic heart
grows old and soft
and exists as a spot
with no name.
Amit Shankar Saha is a widely-published award-winning poet and short story writer. He has won the Poiesis Award for Excellence in Literature, the Wordweavers Prize, and the Nissim International Runner-up Prize for Poetry. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Griffin Poetry Prize. He is the co-founder of Rhythm Divine Poets, the Assistant Secretary of Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library and the Fiction Editor of Ethos Literary Journal. His poems have been included in Best Indian Poetry Anthology 2018 and he has read his poems at Sahitya Akademi, Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival and at other literary events. His two collections of poems are titled Balconies of Time and Fugitive Words. He has co-edited a volume of short stories titled Dynami Zois. He has a PhD in English from Calcutta University and teaches in the English Department of Seacom Skills University.