# Pen at the Pollen

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2017/11/14/pen-at-the-pollen/
- Published: 2017-11-14T01:38:05+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Diganta Ray[](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Pen-at-the-Pollen.jpg)
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Pages:** 76 **Year of Publication:** 2017 **Price:** Rs 150 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
160-1 (9789350451601)

_**About the Author**_
 Diganta Ray is an MA student in the Department of English
at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has published two earlier collections of poems,
titled _Stolen Sights_ and _Ant-Eggs in Honey-Hive Shade_, both published by Salesian
College Publication in 2014 and 2015 respectively. Born and brought up in Siliguri,
West Bengal, he aspires to be a poet by profession.

_**Teaser**_

_Glass That Measures Grief_

A glass breaks;
 And for the next five days Lots of work are to be done  – The floor
has to be cleaned; I keep slipping On the water that’s on the floor, Fall into the
broken pieces And with each fall Give birth to a thousand more, From one stained
piece. The sixth day Is like waking up from a fever. With trembling hands I put 
the pieces together And only then throw them away Seeing them whole for one last
time Before they scatter, Though they scatter beyond memory.

But my hands keep trembling
 With cuts, with cold, And so the next glass breaks 
too soon; Thus the cycle of grief is wound more closely, And completes a rotation
faster, Although the gloom lengthens each time.

_**Contents**_
 41 poems