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CONTENTS

The Pool
Wall of Resistance
Grace of Darkness
Sons and Fathers
Although Sometimes a Hand
Fear of Darkness
Severed Cord
Understanding Father’s Silence
Inconsolable
Another Night in the Life of an Insomniac
I Forget the First Line
The Water Course
In the Deception of Light
On a Strange Seashore
August Fifteen, 2000
An Argument
Summer, Records
Without a Cane in the Hand
A Trust Beyond Any Victory or Remorse
Sea in the Dark
This Road
Prabin at Khajuripada
What are You Doing Here
Only One Friend is Enough, Even Though Dead
Panchayat Elections
A Poem’s Worth
They are to Blame
The Man in the Drizzle
The House by the Sea
An Evening
Trishanku’s World
An Evening that Grows on You
Seeking Solace
An Amorphous Time
Living with Losses
Living by an Absence of a House, Always
One Day
The Shape of your Summer
A Day with One’s Self
An Inevitable Fate
A Ripe Dark
Summer Evenings, Load-shedding
Wind in the Eucalyptus
The Bull
The Fist
A Son’s Distrust of Light
Betrayal of the Sea
In Praise of Dasia Bauri

About The Author

Rabindra K Swain (1960) holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Utkal University.  He is the author of two collections of poems, Once Back Home and A Tapestry of Steps and one of translations, Bajubreehi.  His latest book is The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra: A Critical Study.  His poems have appeared in many journals, including Critical Quarterly, Contemporary Review, the Kenyon Review and Ariel.  Presently he is Managing Editor of Chandrabhaga, one of the foremost literary periodicals in the country.  He lives in Bhubaneswar.