Daruwalla’s Under Orion Poem by Bijay Kant Dubey

Daruwalla is a poet of disease and death,
Curfew and riot,
Wrath and anger,
Indignation and tussle,
Flood and its furies,
The houses in water,
The submerged villages
And the buffaloes floating.

Curfew in a Riot-torn City, Pestilence, The Epileptic,
Monologue in the Chambal Valley,
Shiva: At Timarsain, Shiva: At Lodheshwar, Ecce Homo,
Elegy I, Elegy II, Elegy III, Elegy IV,
Easy and Difficult Animals,
Dialogues with a Third Voice,
Collage I, Collage II, the poems.

My Poetry, A Simple Poet, The Wrong Match,
The Revolt of the Salt Slaves, Under Orion,
You Were the First,
In the Tarai,
The Ghaghra in Spate, The Parijat Tree,
The Beggar, Graft, Death by Burial,
Rumination, Railroad Reveries, the rest.

Morning shows the day is the thing
To clutch by as thus,
A poet stout and tight,
Hard-hearted,
Rough and tough,
A poet verbose and bombastic,
Archaic and unsentimental.