December 2022
Sekhar Banerjee
banerjsekhar@gmail.com
Bio Note: I am a Pushcart Award nominated poet. The Fern-Gatherers’ Association is my latest poetry collection. My works have been published in Stand, The Bitter Oleander, Ink Sweat and Tears and elsewhere. I live in Kolkata, India and love remote places, tea and mobile photography.

An Urgent Telegram from Eros in Autumn

A GLANCE (STOP) A POUT (STOP) A SIGH (STOP) 
MAYBE MORE THAN THAT (STOP) YOU DON’T KNOW (STOP)
SAY RED POPPIES ON BLACK ICE (STOP)
SAY THE SHAPE OF THE HOLLOW INSIDE YOUR CHEST (STOP)
WHERE SOMEONE CAN JUST FIT IN (STOP)
SAY MODIGLIANI GIFTING YOU ‘RECLINING NUDE’ (STOP)
BETWEEN BLUE AND GOOD EVENING (STOP)
A JOURNEY GETS LIMITED (STOP) BY ITS DESTINATION (STOP)
LIKE A FALL (STOP)
HAVE A GOOD TIME (STOP) YOU CANNOT STOP NOW (STOP)

A Draft Break-up Telegram Not Sent

ACCEPT WHAT IS LOST (STOP) LOST FOREVER (STOP) A CITY 
WITHOUT A MEMORY (STOP) AN ALZHEIMER PATIENT (STOP)
YOUR DELETED PHONE NUMBER (STOP) 
A TREE WITHOUT A NAME (STOP) LIKE REPEATED UNANSWERED 
MESSAGES TO A DEAD FRIEND (STOP) LIKE A GOD 
REMEMBERED ONLY IN PRAYERS (STOP) 
A LOSS COMMUNICATED NOW (STOP) BUT ONLY MUCH LATER 
(STOP) TAKE CARE (STOP)
©2022 Sekhar Banerjee
Editor's Note: If this poem(s) moves you please consider writing to the author (email address above) to say what it is about the poem you like. Writing to the author is what builds the community at Verse Virtual. It is very important. -JL