Shome Dasgupta
1. THE DISPATCHMoon And Mantle
Silt slit—so along the crevice, detritus and echoed lullabies entered and emerged upon river mouths as such tongues lingered among melodic motions up against eroded banks of stalagmitic earth. Lest dearth of photonic strophes to fill air of hallowed matter and grit and to release sediment upon sediment, a bouquet of dirt and mineral in which to rest one’s lips as if to kiss gentle vibrations of hum and clef—a world’s only ghost, one that sings in soil and sap and how torn it went, the stripped lands and roots. Such is the upheaval of bearings and lost magnets floated in circles around gravitational pulls—pulleys to push belts of tectonic plates and bewildered masses, struck by a touch of love of drained surfaces. This was a way—away each wave however shuddered to find meaning in currents and fields where the radius found its way to a broken beacon, a flickered blink or tap or beat to let simple sheaths of mantle and moon hear in trebles a tumbled soaring sun.
2. BUREAU INVENTORYGabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Rolling pin
A broken pink candle
A figurine of an owl
Three unused notebooks
A ceramic family of ducks
A vase
3. BIOGRAPHYShome Dasgupta is the author of i am here And You Are Gone (Winner Of The 2010 OW Press Contest), The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), Anklet And Other Stories (Golden Antelope Press), Pretend I Am Someone You Like (Livingston Press), Mute (Tolsun Books), Spectacles (Word West), and a poetry collection, Iron Oxide (Assure Press). He is currently the series editor of the Wigleaf Top 50. He lives in Lafayette, LA and can be found www.shomedome.com and @laughingyeti.