Vivekanand Jha’s most recent poem to appear here was Let me live even in the dark (May 2010).Stigmatic widowhoodBy Vivekanand JhaCustom curses the widowand blesses the widowerwidow, a horse with bridle; widower, a tiger without fetters.Stand two victims in a sea of sympathy:all waves sway toward the widowerwhile stranded at seashore, widow seeswordlessly all worldly ebbs and flows.It […]