One fanciful Calcutta summer
the world maps were ripped off
from overused geography textbooks
in an act of innocent revolution.
You cherry-picked ecstatic reds
from sunsetty Russian sky-palettes,
scooping the colours out of the glossy
pages, and blending them expertly with
the flirty blues of the river Moskva.
I, too, borrowed the antique
old world hues of St. Basil’s cathedral
from a sparkling summer’s day,
and together, you and I,
we finger-painted the streets of Calcutta
with the colours of our Revolution.
Nikita Parik is the Assistant editor of Ethos Literary Journal.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from the university of Calcutta, an Advanced Diploma of three years in French studies from the Ramakrishna Mission, a Master’s degree (MA) in Linguistics from the University of Calcutta, and is about to earn another Master’s degree (MA) in English this year.
Her works have appeared in Contemporary Literary Review- India (CLRI), Ann Arbor Review: An International Journal Of Poetry, Open Road Review Literary Journal, Shot Glass Journal, The Commonline Journal, Blackmail Press, Aainanagar, Kaafiya, and several others. Her debut poetry chapbook has been longlisted in an international poetry chapbook competition this year. She is currently also working on her book length poetry collection on multiculturalism, multilingualism, displacement, and an understanding of one’s cross-cultural, cross-linguistic identities as a result of internal migration.
A fine poem by Nikita Parik.
The Metaworker, thanks.
Thank you so much, Sanjeev ji! ❤❤❤