Satya Dash
Satya Dash is a recipient of the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Broken River Prize. His poems appear in Ninth Letter, Denver Quarterly, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, Cincinnati Review, and Diagram, among others. Apart from having a degree in electronics from BITS Pilani-Goa, he has been a cricket commentator. He has been nominated previously for Pushcart, Nina Riggs Poetry Award, Orison Anthology and Best New Poets. He grew up in Cuttack and now lives in Bangalore, India. He tweets at: @satya043
Love Poem where anticipation is everything
Succulents cruise on the edge of a spaceship
about to enter another riveting atmosphere
but it halts short of running into a mural
on the giant wall of the city’s science museum
where lovers form a small but distinct part
of the Sunday population here look at me
with a bouquet of red carnations on the winding way
to the room in your house I find so majestic
because you live there
the museum detour did what it had to slowing down
my heart’s impulse towards frantic beating
it is proven red herrings soothe the amygdala
release hijacked energy of tense shoulders
prevent spondylitis yes I eat a litany of fallen flowers
on the sidewalk whole petals canoe upstream
against the conniving bile of acid reflux
in the house of hunger rises the mercury of sea level fast
igniting minds of a bunch of second graders
who are memorizing the difference today
between rotation and revolution for a short question
in Monday’s class test I was there once oblivious
to how attention teeters on the tattered edges
of floating memory at your door I slap my cheek
to stop thinking about kissing you
I ring
the tantalizing doorbell
I say a most ardent hello
to your father
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