Contributor: Nikhil Nath

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Sitting in a hemisphere
of abstraction

I cut a lemon
into two sentences

filled with the aroma
of humor

that will bring
an orange of refreshment

from the daily sameness
of marrying everything to simile


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Nikhil has been writing poetry for eighteen years. He has been published in various magazines in India, the USA and the UK. Nikhil Nath is his pen name. He lives and works from Kolkata, India. "Write rubbish, but write", said Virginia Woolf. This is Nikhil's maxim for writing. His poems have been accepted in Allegro, Aji, Ink sweat and tears, Ithica lit., Germ, Leaves of Ink, Ehanom among others.