Groom, 2000
Posted: July 31, 2023 Filed under: Poem, Poetry | Tags: Extramarital Affair, Infidelity, Sexual Rejection, The Impossibility of Love in a Marriage, Unrequited Love is More Than Violence, Village Love Village Affair 1 CommentSoaked rice, onion
with green chillies
by paddy field.
Dal, anchovy fry
at noon.
Gur
in winter,
bael
in summer,
death
in every season.
Drenched in the sun,
Sahu-bride ran
to the sea,
to hunt Pola Giri,
to drown
his fishing trawler:
she didn’t return.
Her callow groom
on a tuberose bed
bayed
at the moon.
(The poem was first published in the May 2023 issue of Poetry India: https://www.ethosliterary.org/poetry-india/may-2023-issue/poems-by-arun-paria)
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