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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.

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