Jayanta Bhaumik – In a thought of drapetomania
Rate it, if possible, how we become the creatures
at the heart-centre.
Rate this forest, its depth full of tinsel and chintz.
Beer in the mind. Rabbits and antelopes occupy
some fields in the brain. Horses at long, long
roads transfigured to your limbs. Us with the promise
of animals – rest others targeting so we can escape
this enlightening shadow.
Let’s think of this neverending train journey.
Ubiquitous, the train runs for the best halt of saturation.
After all the beacons and whirring,
a few peacocks seen luring few others at a distance,
a lone gazelle, a meek fawn,
a realm of living objects animated,
dense entertainment continual out the window.
The jungled night over, a morning in our mouth,
a unison rushes out and so furtively uttered,
every soundtrack repeated at 360 degrees’ light and shadow –
all scenes so perfect for a box-office hit.
A pandora’s box in a circle, repeatedly lost and found.
Now, that’s not a heart-sized creature anywhere in us.
Jayanta Bhaumik is from Kolkata, India. He is from the esoteric field and counselling. He works in India, and in several countries of South-east Asia, specially Singapore. Has been to various spots in Thailand for attending workshops on Buddhist processes of Meditation and Counselling. Very recently, while working in Singapore and The Philippines, certain lines haunted him in a lonely, overcast evening; and his way to express things in poetry took another different shape, another world of understanding suddenly has begun emerging out like a very slow stream of inner earthly substances. His works can be found in Poetry Superhighway, Juked, Pif Magazine, Vita Brevis Press, Scarlet Leaf Review, Blue Lake Review, Streetcake Magazine, Fourth & Sycamore, and elsewhere.
Artwork: The midnight theatricals by Sarah-Jane Crowson
Sarah-Jane Crowson’s art and poetry is inspired by fairytales, nature and her personal emotional landscape. It is informed by ideas of accidental trespass, surrealism and romanticism. Her collages transform images and artefacts from historical popular culture into surreal, theatrical dreamscapes. Sarah-Jane's images can be seen in various UK and US journals, including The Adroit Journal, Rattle, Waxwing Literary Journal, Petrichor, Sugar House Review and Iron Horse Literary Review. You can find her on Twitter @Sarahjfc, Instagram @Sarah_jfc or on her website at www.sarahjanecrowson.art