By Rajnish Mishra
Rajnish Mishra is a poet, writer, translator and blogger born and brought up in Varanasi, India and now in exile from his city. His work originates at the point of intersection between his psyche and his city. His work has now started appearing in journals and websites.
Death came visiting: far away.
Death surprises me even today,
after so many exposures, closures.
I still don’t know how to react to it,
how to respond; how to talk about it,
how to condole. My mind keeps running away,
keeps reaching towards those deaths, those dead,
and those left behind.
Their death close, or distant, but definite,
like mine.
Academy of the Heart And Mind 