Biswadarshan Mohanty, Dubai
on certain summer evenings, fireflies met
on the bael, on the jamun,
on flowers of pinwheel,
on overgrown lantana hedges—
then they hurtled towards ECG-lined
corners of colocasia hearts.
they met in the dark, when
everything else was invisible.
they were beacons for each other and
open-eyed meditations for a ten-year-old.
now they gather in a space
between my closed eyes,
forming constellations
in the shape of my childhood.
Biswadarshan Mohanty is a writer and graduate student in Master of Arts (Writing and Literature) at Deakin University, Australia. His work is forthcoming in Van Voice 1.0 by Tribal Rights Forum, India. He lives in Dubai, and having moved numerous cities and countries, he has found home in his imagination.
