Sumanta Chatterjee is a poet, translator, story-writer who writes extensively in his vernacular, Bengali. Some of his English poems are here.
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Regenguss auf trübe Gläser
malt einen wilden Nervenkitzel
von Lichtern berauscht
...
The moonbeams are painting
Rhythmic kisses
Over the Ganges ripples
The golden waves dancing
...
I look at the canvas.
Patches of dry colours
Here and there. Scattered.
Greyscales try to
...
Still some faint light
Through which
The insensate body of Aylan Kurdi
Turning back on the sky—
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