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Squirrels in the Old Farmer’s Yard

Squirrels
with erect tufts
of
bushy tails
cut across the wide
yards
of the old farmer’s house,

a mass of the greys and
blacks
moves in the sun,
a vaudeville staged.

Picture design by Anumita Roy

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Dr. Sunil Sharma
A humble word-worshipper: catcher of elusive sounds, meanings and images. Published 27 creative and critical books--- joint and solo. A winner of, among others, the Panorama Golden Globe Award-2023, and, Nissim Award for Excellence-2022 for the novel Minotaur. His poems were included in the prestigious UN project: Happiness: The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry, 2015. Editor of the monthly Setu journal (English):

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