Resurrection -Shabana Nasreen

The crows feast on mutilated bodies-
Bodies- as soft as petals,
munching and chewing-
their flesh that taste of bullets and burning grief.
Bodies-
Thirteen inches, twenty-six inches, and thirty and nine
Lie motionless and maimed.
Far across the border,
The radio cries, “Save Children! Save Children!”
The skeletons remain,
waiting for the rain,
to get dissolved into the soil
and bloom as flowers again.

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Shabana Nasreen is a Research Scholar in the Department of English, Diamond Harbour Women’s University. She is also a Guest Faculty in the Department of English, Jadavpur University. She has presented papers at several national and international seminars and has published research articles in Web of Science Indexed, UGC Care Listed and Peer-Reviewed Journals. She has been a dedicated teacher of English at Convergence since July 2023, and teaches the language at various levels.