Orbit – Deb Bandyopadhyay

Oct 23, 2021 | Fiction

Quiet
Somewhere in the past, you.
I march on.
Ripples separate fast
at the distant horizon.

Yet around you, spring is static
I revolve
Latent and misplaced
In a lonely orbit

Once again

Deb Bandyopadhyay is a scientist and a student of poetry. Deb’s poems portrait vivid imagery of scattered pieces of his life in distant continents. He is also a passionate photographer and often experiments with various mediums, subjects and technology. In this work, the poet and the photographer meet in air.

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