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12.17.2025 7:00 AM

For everything that matters by Jayanta Bhaumik

For everything that matters

For example, it’s not a simple joke that every
barefooted angel resembles my mother, not trying
for rain. She’s a hard fact, only trying and trying to
dry my lands and finally shedding tears to grow
fruits and dream-infected insects.
For example, you love your animals so much that
they need no border on your table.
Next what? – you love biting your across-the-board
nitty-gritty, you can imitate cackles without breaking
your songs, you think you own a suitable obliqueness
in order to become a suitable obliqueness for your
complex citymap – all these, you, you, you, now
standing helpless, fearing, lest your table broaden
its area, enlarging itself more and more to become
a weird wooden island on the floor. You now jump
into the fact that you can maintain fear like a string
perfectly knotted, not short of a racing horse or his
extension chord.
Years of agitation now a semi-circular whirligig, a dint
now a placidity lazy hammering every night, a deed of
being a flower just a flower, and an absurdly motherly
man having to shed some sweats to keep this floral
simplicity as fresh as the asinine lines on forehead
when one first time in a dating dilemma.
I give this entire example to my child the way my
mother had told me this simple joke how to save
a few ironies from a ratty greed, how to hide them in
a lion-hearted cupboard, ultimately pouring them into
all those derelict pages I now wear so I may turn
my own desperate notepad, read/ unread.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jayanta Bhaumik is from Kolkata, India, from the field of Mental Health & Counselling. His recent or past works can be found in Poetry Superhighway, Juked, Blue Lake Review, Acropolis Journal, Madswirl, Fourth & Sycamore, Version(9), Loglorien Poetry Anthology, Fevers of The Mind Anthology, 100 Poems for 21st Century Anthology by Rough Diamond, and elsewhere. His first Chapbook is going to be published from Alien Buddha Press in the middle of December 2025. He has been nominated as the Best of the Net by Fevers of The Mind in August 2025. His X handle: @BhaumikJayanta