In A Railway Shanty Poem by JIBAN GOSWAMI
In A Railway Shanty
Lying in a shanty by a railway track her tired heap of bones shaken by roaring trains she dreams of sounds of silence
twin toddlers tug at lumps of desiccated breasts howling in despair, fire in their belly unquenched
Saturday, August 2, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: despair
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
A saw a dying woman in a railway shanty in a staion in UP, India. Her kids not knowing her plight were trying to feed from her breasts, howling in hunger.The pathetic scene retained in my memory and I have tried to depict it here.s
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