Bio

Dhee Sankar holds a PhD in literature from Presidency University, Kolkata, India. He writes poetry in English and in Bengali. His debut collection of Bengali poems, Ushor Pandulipi, was published by Patra Bharati in 2022. His English poetry and short stories have appeared in Muse India, Harbinger Asylum, Grand Little Things, Samyukta Fiction, Setu, and the Poetry and Covid archive by the government of UK, among others. He has been a member of the Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library (IPPL) since 2022.

Morning
after
we fall
out of our
skin and quarrel as if
we lost our sleep for nights for nothing,
I get up with a start to find the room deserted, the bed
unmade, the folds of your flesh biting back at me for refusing to bite them like you like me to do.
I should have looked past the surface of your sass, past the skin into the undulations of your existence, past the smoke
to the burning cause of your fire. We deserve to burn better.