Gardener | Bibhu Padhi

What if you don’t care?

Every leaf knows how I feel,
every bird and bud, every human
pathway in between hedge-rows.

What if you don’t know,
or rather wouldn’t, for reasons
best known to you?

I need not speak to you.
Each small thing in your garden
will speak for me.

Every small thing has laid itself
bare, my gardener!

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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.