POEMS ---- Title: When the Flood Stops Poet: Chaitali Sengupta Poet Intro: Chaitali Sengupta is a writer and a poet by passion, a financial analyst and a language teacher by profession. She’s a translator and volunteer journalist, based in the Netherlands. “Cross Stitched words”, her debut collection of prose-poems, has been recently published by SETU publications, USA. Her two translated works (from Bengali to English) are “Quiet whispers of our heart” & “A thousand words of heart”. She has con…

The mother smells flood, as the rippling water, comes crashing at her door, singing an ominous song. It’s thunderous voice, asks for alms, she offers her lone utensil which washes away through the sheets of rain, bobbing up and down, without apology. Her roof as short-lived as the life of a small golden fish, drips and cracks with the next roar. Her children huddles together, under the big bucket. Like a wet crow waiting but not uttering a single ‘caw.’ A blurred, bedraggled destiny, stares …