Severed Cord

CONTENTS The Pool Wall of Resistance Grace of Darkness Sons and Fathers Although Sometimes a Hand Fear of Darkness Severed Cord Understanding Father's Silence Inconsolable Another Night in the Life of an Insomniac I Forget the First Line The Water Course In the Deception of Light On a Strange Seashore August Fifteen, 2000 An Argument Summer, Records Without a Cane in the Hand A Trust Beyond Any Victory or Remorse Sea in the Dark This Road Prabin at Khajuripada What are You Doing Here Only One Friend is Enough, Even Though Dead Panchayat Elections A Poem's Worth They are to Blame The Man in the Drizzle The House by the Sea An Evening Trishanku's World An Evening that Grows on You Seeking Solace An Amorphous Time Living with Losses Living by an Absence of a House, Always One Day The Shape of your Summer A Day with One's Self An Inevitable Fate A Ripe Dark Summer Evenings, Load-shedding Wind in the Eucalyptus The Bull The Fist A Son's Distrust of Light Betrayal of the Sea In Praise of Dasia Bauri About The Author Rabindra K Swain (1960) holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Utkal University.  He is the author of two collections of poems, Once Back Home and A Tapestry of Steps and one of translations, Bajubreehi.  His latest book is The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra: A Critical Study.  His poems have appeared in many journals, including Critical Quarterly, Contemporary Review, the Kenyon Review and Ariel.  Presently he is Managing Editor of Chandrabhaga, one of the foremost literary periodicals in the country.  He lives in Bhubaneswar.