# Count Your Letters

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2016/03/02/count-your-letters/
- Published: 2016-03-02T01:16:27+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Saptak Patel [⌊WP_20151211_15_21_40_Pro⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/WP_20151211_15_21_40_Pro.jpg)
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Pages:** 108 **Year of Publication:** 2015 **Price:** Rs 250 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
105-2 (9789350451052)

_**About the Author**_
 Saptak Patel was born in 1978. He is the author of _The 
Jaggery Milestones _(Frogbooks, 2010).

_**Teaser**_

_Philtre_

One noontide the shadow
 when it ought to retreat cast long the mouth’s burden shaded
the foretip.

Its clouds drizzled
 to intoxicate with spit enough to aedict I drugging, sept more
off lung

than lung without I, shadow to my stone, stone to my temple,
 in blessed hushing,
shed _qalamadh_ from the blood. Dragn to hand, haunting the tongue,

misting throat, vaporous song
 I coilt as breath, knot’d as froth, bud hereon, sprouting
talk in the iternal shade of a career drug

its juice in the blood
 turbult with stringy fibres, like liquid-rays from a churning
sheet of pyre, stitch my flame to the lung.

_**Contents**_
 66 poems