

 
 
 
	 
				Alokeranjan Dasgupta
translated from the original Bengali by 
 I look at villages and 
 Bhismadev Chakrabarti
 I see my mother
 As a child.
 I look at hills in the villages and
 I see my love
 As a child.
 Waterfalls spring from the heart of these hills
 I look, and I see
 Each home that was left behind.
 The river stretches beyond the waterfall
 Watched over by a wooden bridge, longing
 I look, and I see
 Noakhali,
            
            
                  the bridge that did not bear, and
            
            
                  the god that did not yield.
  
 Illustrated by Ananya Das. Author of several books and an illustrator, Ananya Das is based in Pennsylvania.