Truck

Bina Sarkar Ellias – 3 Poems & a Truck 

The Watch-dog

two dozen floors

of middleclass doors

and within its womb

a wolf’s tomb––

with knives in his eyes

and lust in his guise

of a watch-dog.

Night Crawls

       night crawls

in my coffee cup

dregs of day yawn

a poem writes itself.

Truck

A truck in my head

Rolls around all day

With a freight of words

That have little to say

But they leap up and down

Like circus clowns

O Oh! Have they come here

to stay?

Bina Sarkar Ellias is founder, editor, designer and publisher of International Gallerie, an award-winning global arts and ideas publication from India. Committed to encouraging critical awareness and understanding of cultures as interpreted through the arts, she has been publishing for 16 years, and is also an arts curator. As poet and writer, she has been published in anthologies and online sites. She received a Fellowship in 2007 from the Asia Leadership Fellow Program and Japan Foundation for research and development of the project: Unity in Diversity.  Envisioning Community Building in Asia and Beyond, and the Times Group Yami Women Achiever’s award in 2008.