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PROSE POETRY​

BIMAN ROY


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OMNIPRESENCE

I desire you like thirst desires cold water. We used to cut pieces of eternity and hang them over the bedpost. At times we would cut a smaller piece of it, slip it inside a Christmas card, then fling it across the ocean of night. When our daughter came, we managed to sneak a few stars in. You grew dreams along with squash and cabbage. I watched you clipping solitude from branches. Now my neighbor asks, “Has she gone on a vacation?” With emptiness in my eyes, I say, “She is everywhere.”


Biman Roy has been writing poetry for the past three decades and has been widely published. His writing has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart awards. Biman Roy is the author of one chapbook of prose poems, “Of Moon and Washing Machine” and two other poetry chapbooks, “Dinosaur Hour” and “Navigating the Quartz Forest.”
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