Bakul Banerjee: Anandalipi 2022: Curious Memories in a New Country,
page 125; https://issuu.com/anandamandir/docs/anandalipi2022/6
Bakul Banerjee: 2022 Marylyn Houghton Keyton Founders Prize for poetry (Naperville Writers Group) Winner - The Sandstorm
Bakul Banerjee: Allium - A Journal of Poetry and Prose An Immigrant Woman's Fish Stories This short story has been nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize.
Bakul Banerjee: Panoply magazine - An Accidental Appalachian It is based on an event during my brief stay in southern Ohio.
Bakul Banerjee’s poems on Index of ISPS Member Poems by Author (illinoispoets.org)
The Sandstorm
The color of the sky was turning acid green.
“Close the windows.” Mother was screaming.
I was
peeking at love letters in the cookie tin,
that my
father wrote to his new bride. I gave in.
Closing
windows against the wind was daunting.
Despite
efforts, the fierce sandstorm blew in.
In the
summer afternoon, the house went dark.
I could
not remember where I left the old tin.
The power was out. In the darkness, I tasted grit.
Ganga,
that’s what my father called her. I kept
thinking.
Was she like the mighty river swollen
by the
monsoon, shimmering under the moonlight?
