it flowedfrom her wombthe river of wordsthat becamemine, faithful~following meto be lovedto be caressedin articulationsto be readin random foraysto be comfortin a senseof belongingto be inscribedon the mapof my spring years.
it slipped thenthrough the crackslost on the highwayof a life livedin layers of wanderings.the alphabetsthat had shapedmy childhoodbecame strangersthe lilt of the languagebecame alienthe lexicona forgotten forestsyllables mere murmursof distant season the mapof my summer years.
it flowed back againwith the late tiderushing in to claimits bank of memoriesof a tongue bruisedand lost in time.it flowed back againwith the musicof its cadenceechoing in corridorswhere they hadonce nestledand I dust awaythe fugitive yearsand shine the lightof a lost languageon the mapof my autumn years.
Bina Sarkar Ellias. bina, (aka Bina Sarkar Ellias) is a poet, founder-editor-designer-publisher of International Gallerie, an award-winning publication since 1997, and a fiction-writer. As art curator, she is currently curating a 2024 show for a gallery in New York. Her books of poems include ‘The Room’, ‘Fuse’ (which has been taught at the Towson University, USA) and has a Mandarin edition, ‘When Seeing Is Believing’, ‘Cercana Lejania / Closer Farness’ a Spanish-English bi-lingual book, ‘Song of a Rebel and ‘Ukiyo-e Days… Haiku Moments’. Her poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, Arabic and Urdu. She received a Fellowship from the Asia Leadership Fellow Program 2007, the Times Group Yami Women Achievers’ award, 2008, and the FICCI/FLO 2013 award for excellence in her work.
