Soaked rice, onion with green chillies by paddy field. Dal, anchovy fry at noon. Gur in winter, bael in summer, death in every season.
Drenched in the sun, Sahu-bride ran to the sea, to hunt Pola Giri, to drown his fishing trawler: she didn’t return. Her callow groom on a tuberose bed bayed at the moon.
(The poem was first published in the May 2023 issue of Poetry India: https://www.ethosliterary.org/poetry-india/may-2023-issue/poems-by-arun-paria)
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