December | Bibhu Padhi

Which wind is touching our skin
so differently this evening?

Which wind comes floating
into the rooms, as if

we were guessing an arrival,
a stranger, another spring?

As if from a place where
fairy tales are born?

Beliefs are far from here,
though we are certainly

in a new season, in
a house of spring and incense.

This may not be with us
tomorrow, just as

today will not be,
like tomorrow might not.

Come, let’s spend the night
exactly the way this stranger

asks us to–wide awake,
and all the while wondering

where we all have come to,
which dream country,

and whose mute voice
follows the night.

Let’s listen, feel lonely,
or just sink into our daily sleep

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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.