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Poetry || SubmissionsReturningBy Srinjay Chakravarti These, my days, have stopped where I myself had stood just a while ago. Thus far and no further, they say – we won't go any more on foot. I see them sitting by the river's edge, swishing vague feet in the muddy silence of its water. I sigh, and start once again. My body trundles along wearily, creaking and swaying under its new, unfamiliar load. My days, piled upon each other as though on a bullock-cart, jostling for space on my back. Only my feet seem to know where this rutted track is taking us. I watch them walk on and on, till they blur into the spokes of my uncaring wheels. The trees and bushes by the road are overhung with wild creepers matted and ashen into an ascetic's unkempt hairs by the murky light of this my evening. Underfoot, the dried mud and slush hardly conceal the stones and boulders and make for a bumpy ride. The black basalt shoulders of my road have their skins stretched across fleshless old bones. From the leaves overhead, clustered spaces of sky count its ribs with the scraps of light they sometimes let through. Countless carts have returned this way, stripping it of all its clods. The knobbed tufts of grass make up the only backbone that has been spared by the ruts. My axle wobbles on, following the spoor of this green spine into the beckoning darkness. Srinjay Chakravarti at rinjchak@hotmail.com is a journalist, economist and poet working in a newspaper in Calcutta, India. His poetry has been published in journals, magazines and webzines in India, USA, UK and Sweden, including Ariga, The Journal of the Poetry Society (India), Snakeskin, The Telegraph, Eclectica Magazine and The New Miscellany. His 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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