WORLD VOICES

HEAT
  BY SUDEEP SEN


Contents

Home
About the Author
Introduction

Mediterranean
One Moonlit December
   Night

Flying Home
Desire
Bharatanatyam Dancer
Dreaming of Cézanne
Heather
Carole
Feminine Musk
Winter
Matrix
Almaya, Jaffa
Prayer Call: Heat
Offering
Kiss

Acknowledgments

Sudeep Sen
Aark Arts
Atlas

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The Literary Explorer
Writers on the Job
Books Forgotten
Thomas E. Kennedy
Walter Cummins
Web Del Sol



Mediterranean

         1

A bright red boat
Yellow capsicums

Blue fishing nets
Ochre fort walls

         2

Sahar's silk blouse
gold and sheer

Her dark black
kohl-lined lashes

         3

A street child's
brown fists

holding the rainbow
in his small grasp

         4

My lost memory
white and frozen

now melts colour
ready to refract


from New Writing 15 (London: Granta, 2007) and forthcoming in Blue Nude: New Selected Poems & Translations 1980-2010.