Waiting Through The Night | Bibhu Padhi

Now, almost morning. It is difficult
to know how to steer through
the day’s long cleverness.

A vague pain from last night
is everywhere even now–  
over the earth, the sky, this body.

Even last evening’s whiskey
with friends, was too weak
to bring in sleep.

I asked my woman of Puri-on-Sea
to sit with me through the night,
listen to my invented tales.

Our intelligent, teenage son
will not listen to my
request for company.

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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.