Debasis Mukhopadhyay
Ismaelillo what is blue to such ephemera
is your inviolate jazz that tosses off petals
behind my closed eyelids
a decrescendo
making imprints of
crows feet
all over my death
atop a white horse
this blue
gorges on a distilled blue of cries
hanging in the noumena
& never shrinks
always falling far from the dark window i press
i thought songs always unfold outward to images
that claim my roots as their own wings
yet everything is so still
one death just get another
what is this blue
to such stillness
to all that blood washed out
& has not become
What survives
herein hold my bones a light
a wisp of circling lines of your jazz chorus
between dark permanence & bright escaping
i no longer know
Ismaelillo what you would make of the variations of time
between the dashed air of your trumpet & holes of my flesh
a blue rush to coil like rainbows torn from all the abandoned dead
Debasis Mukhopadhyay is the author of the chapbook kyrie eleison or all robins taken out of context (Finishing Line Press, 2017). His poems have appeared in Erbacce Journal, The Curly Mind, Posit, Words Dance, Yellow Chair Review, I am not a silent poet, New Verse News, Anapest Journal, Thirteen Myna Birds, Better than Starbucks, Scarlet Leaf Review, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for the Best of the Net. Debasis lives & writes in Montreal, Canada.