Contributor: Nikhil Nath

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I fall from
an exclamation

and face a
tiger, who

is more sudden
than lightning,

I run and
jump onto

a large bracket
that carries me

to the end
of a ferry boat,

that mistakes
me for a mark

of interrogation and casts
me to catch fish

and I lose
a secret I

had eloped with
in a gossip

within
inverted commas.


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Nikhil has been writing poetry for eighteen years. He has been published in various magazines in India, the USA and the UK. Nikhil Nath is his pen name. He lives and works from Kolkata, India. “Write rubbish, but write", said Virginia Woolf. This is Nikhil's maxim for writing.
Allegro, Aji, Ink salt and Tears, Laughing Dog (Poem of the Month), Ehanom, Ithica Lit, Germ Magazine, Leaves of Ink, Linden Avenue, Pif magazine have all recently accepted his work.