The sweet and broken and crumpled faces are hovering over the streets now
I can see why melancholy sank its teeth into me at nineteen and
my head is beginning to hang with shame
What’s the date today my breath is still circulating in our suburbs although this room is tiny now and the days are damaged and the nights have no cracks
— Bhaskar Chakrabarti, from “Tangles,” Rehearsals from Dreaming, Things That Happen and Other Poems














