Poetry
POETRY / Silent friday
Somehow, the taste of tear gas
POETRY / Jabar bela fele jeo ekti khopar phul
Leave a flower from your bun when you depart, my love.
POETRY / Swapane eshechilo mridubhashini
Translated by Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
POETRY / Survival tactics for “peaceful” protests
Stay in a group, never in alleyways
POETRY / Look out the windows
In the blanks of muddy moonlight
POETRY / Magic boys and girls of Bangladesh
Magic boys and girls of Bangladesh, I love you.
POETRY / All hail July
The July wind brought in the scent of new beginnings
POETRY / Anger and other blessings
A walkway through the crystal-clear lies
BOOK REVIEW: POETRY / Selected poems of Shamim Reza: An overview
Review of 'Shamim Reza: Selected Poems' (ULAB Press, 2023)
The children of the red storm
You've ignited a tempest, / a crimson anger, / A defiance burning brighter than the summer's sun
There was complete silence around the time of your birth
the way there was complete silence when you lied for the first time. You opened your eyes
Dawn of new(?) air
But talks of harmony flood your nose. / Harmony, harmony, harmony—you want it so bad, / and so you put words in our mouths
Bulbul pakhi
“Attention passengers. The next train arriving is a B train traveling westbound towards Boston College. Please stand clear of the closing doors."
A man walks into a bar
a man walks into a bar but he looks like a little boy
The song of freedom
the bullet hole/ in my brother's chest/ unfolds like a pandora's box
Ghostly tenants
My father speaks in a dismantled language that goes up in smoke.
Prayers of a mother for the sons and daughters on the street
justice—where is justice?
Rebel is a letter in red
Where voices unite, a chorus strong, / Demanding justice, righting wrong
The three day wake
‘You must bury / yourself / Every three days’ / She said, / ‘Corpses are of / No use
