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Oh Calcutta
by Kumud Biswas

Oh Calcutta!  

Mother sow!
Our great mother sow!
Reign over the biggest ever sty!

Your ensphered flesh
Swelling, as if all to encompass,
Every hour of every day on others’ refuse,
Gloats over growing garbage heaps.
Those tiny little eyes of yours
Flicker through their hardly visible slits,
In gluttonous expectations.
Your piglets will dig and dig and burrow
With their curly little tails upturned and snouts narrow
On spoils to fatten themselves and frisk
Without ever any risk
Of going to the butcher’s block.
Thanks to patronage
The sty with its huge garbage
Has become their patrimony.

For you my honey
There will be no lack of leftover
Forever and ever.
Even that spotty old jackdaw
With his long miasmatic shadow
Never weary of scavenging
Now himself a-tiring
Has reserved the sweeping
For you mother sow!
Our great mother sow!
Glory to thee, cylindrical sow! 

April 9, 2006

The Week of April 9, 2006   
Anguish by Chan Mongol 
Come Back by Chan Mongol     
Haiku for Judith by Phill Crudden  
Of Love Lost by Tim Jarvis 
Oh Calcutta by Kumud Biswas 
Promises by Dawn Strawhacker  
Stone Creek View by Tim Jarvis
To Fall in Love by Kumud Biswas 
Tom by Tim Jarvis 
Twisted Rails by Tim Jarvis 
Wild Flowers by Tim Jarvis  

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