Two Poems by Ashok Niyogi

BEFORE THAT WAVE THE SURF

nightfall
all
car chassis
wall
your legs
in the mist
insist
flawed
sunset
overawed
voice
waves
cloud
ink
wink
horizon
sea
salt
huge
fault

THEN

Watermelons
Caught
Taught
Taut
In her brassiere
Fraught
With droplets
Sweat
Between eyebrows
That hide eyes
Lies
Which sag

Groans
That could be pain
Again
Moist
Smells that shriek
Knees that will talk
To arthritis
Breathing short
And hard
In the English rain

About the author:
Ashok Niyogi is an Economics graduate from Presidency College, Calcutta. He made a career as an International Trader and has lived and worked in the Soviet Union, Europe and South East Asia in the '80s and '90s.

At 52, he has been retired for some years and has been cashew farming, writing and traveling. He divides time between California, where his daughters live, Delhi and the Indian Himalayas.

He has published a book of poems, TENTATIVELY, [ISBN : 0-595-33935-2] and has been extensively published in print and on-line magazines and in Chapbook form in the USA, UK, Australia and Canada.