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Poetry || SubmissionsDreaming swimmerSrinjay ChakravartiHer sleep sculpts the water, her hands shape the blue-gold ripples of sunshine floating through her eyes. The soft sand of the river bed. Pink stones and pebbles stain the creamy smoothness of the sandy bottom under the tremulous current. Dreaming. Her eyes closed, her body open to the soft sleepy caress of naked water. Trees crouch on the banks. Their roots, their fingers go inside the river, and arouse its shimmering haze deep within her blue thoughts. She sighs, and shifts as fingers whisper within the water. The roots touch and caress and probe naked water. The river swims. She lies still; she is asleep. River, dreaming river. She bathes in handfuls of green sunshine and blue water. Leaves bend down like thoughts, brush their lips on the surface. Sunshine stains her sleep, an ache colours her white body. The river bathes itself in the morning sun. The swimming dreamer. The water sculpts her sleep, its hands shape her body to its own dreams. Roots break through the banks and the shallows of her sleep. The curious fingers of the trees curl around the dreams the river dreams. Some soft as sand, some are smooth pebbles, some jagged rocks shiny with grained quartz. She is asleep. Her body flows gently, water-kissed and sun-dappled, with the river. Dreaming, she swims with the river and the river dreams with her. ©2003 Srinjay Chakravarti I am a journalist, economist and poet working in a newspaper in Calcutta, India. I was born in Calcutta in 1973. I have graduated with honours in Economics from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta. I was also enrolled at the University of Chicago. My poetry has been published in journals, magazines and webzines in India, USA, UK and Sweden, including The Journal of the Poetry Society (India), Snakeskin, The Telegraph and The New Miscellany. My first book of poems 'Occam's Razor' (Writers Workshop, Calcutta) received the SALT literary award from John Kinsella and a literary trust in Melbourne, Australia in 1995. Today's Situation
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