The Seeker
By Anuradha Mazumdar
Between workplace and home,
and on the asphalt stretching in-between
Between waiting for Godot
and winnowing love
from pride, prejudice and misunderstanding
Between fixing faces
to meet familiar strangers
and joining in the laughter of friends
Between swallowing a song
threatening to roll off the tongue
and stifling a livid scream
Between sleeping and waking
and tossing in the restlessness
of a pre-dawn half-dream
I keep vigil, like parched soil for a drop of rain,
A seeker, in search of a poem.
Anuradha Mazumder is an Assistant Professor of English in Prafulla Chandra College, Kolkata. An alumna of Presidency College and Calcutta University, she completed her M. Phil. in English Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She is currently a PhD research scholar at the University of Burdwan, West Bengal. She is the author of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes (2018), published by Authorspress, New Delhi. Her poetry, essays, and short fiction have been published in different literary e-journals like Setu, Muse India, Saaranga-English, and Café Dissensus.