And How We’ve Been
Author: Sahana Mukherjee
Pages: 62
Year of Publication: 2025
Price: ₹250
ISBN:
978-81-985733-8-4 (9788198573384)
About the Author
Sahana Mukherjee is from Kolkata, and pursuing doctoral research in the UK. She has been writing poetry for a decade now, and her poems have appeared in several literary magazines, journals and anthologies. This is her second volume with Writers Workshop, India, after August Ache (2019).
Teaser
Mother like Autumn
I wonder what my mother does
Without me –
How she draws water from words
In her tepid loneliness;
If she glistens like an abandoned knife
Under the sun;
If she follows the trail of an ivy.
I wonder what she does
After waking up at the bottom
Of my dream –
How she folds the creases
Of its uproar;
If she hands me the sourness
Of a ripe berry;
If she leaves behind a piece
Of her soul.
Contents
And How We’ve Been / 11
Sweltering / 12
Like a Sparrow / 13
Softly Like a Thimble / 14
Blithely / 15
“it is time, it were time” / 16
In-between / 17
Meralgia Parasthetica / 21
How We Made It in Rain / 26
Pre-cyclonic / 29
Father & I / 31
Homeward / 36
This Place of Quiet / 39
Mother like Autumn / 45
Seven Seas & Thirteen Rivers Away / 46
An Open Window / 47
Winters After / 48
Straight Grows the Mulberry Branch / 49
Ends of February / 50
A Feather through Your Songs / 51
Ghazals / 55
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