My Earthly Lover | Bibhu Padhi

 … every love is a screen from sadness.
                          – Salvatore Quasimodo

Girl of the sea:  I don’t understand
why you should waste your body

like common men and women.
Stay where you were

thirty-three years ago, you were
inside the dark, well-guarded

fort, your mother’s womb,
its warm, night-security.

Why don’t you go from place to place,
such as children do on the valley?

Meetings can be terrible,
and our meeting a long time ago

has quietly drawn away
whatever little blood I had.

And now, at this early morning minute,
your childhood sadness disables me.

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Indian Review | Author Profile | Bibhu Padhi has published eight books of poems. His poems have appeared in distinguished magazines throughout the English-speaking countries, such as Indian Literature, The Illustrated Weekly of India, Quest, Contemporary, Encounter, The Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, The Rialto, Stand, New Letters, New Criterion, Poetry (Chicago), Prairie Schooner, Southwest Review, The Literary Review and TriQuarterly, the Antigonish Review and Queen’s Quarterly. His poems have been included in numerous anthologies, two of the most recent being 60 Indian Poets (Penguin) and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry.
He has also written a book on D.H.Lawrence and co-written (with his wife, Minakshi Padhi) a reference book on Indian Philosophy and Religion.