Ashok Niyogi
kingfisher dives
for fish
when the tiger is coming the monkeys know
from treetops
oh so many greens
on this ochre mountain
such glorious parakeet
pea-hen sit
camouflaging peacock eggs
jackal husband and jackal wife
walk over rounded stone
mellowed by river
for a few moments
someone weeps loudly in yellowed grassland
interrupting the buzz of thousands of gnats
and then we can hear the setting sun
Ashok Niyogi was born in Calcutta in 1955. He has two published collections of poetry in India—Crossroads and Reflections in the Dark (both from A-4 Publications) and has one published book of poems in the United States—Tentatively (iUniverse). He has been published extensively online and in print in India, the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, and Holland.