Baku Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Baku,
Were is Baku,
How far is it,
How to reach there,
Can anyone say it?

How its culture,
Turkish, Russian, Azerbaijani,
European, Asian, Middle Eastern,
Slavic or of else
Which I do not,
Nor can I say it with authority
Turkic, Iranic, Caucasian fusion?

How was Baku in the past,
Who ruled it when,
I get nonplussed, criss-crossed
When I see the traverses of its history,
How the map of it
So full of linear inter-crossing,
So full of upheaval and repercussion,
So prone to clashes and captures?