Enigma

by Ajanta Paul


Drawn blinds
on bland facades

hint of a smile
in hard-to-read eyes

a walk on the edge
of a path that eludes

a teasing taste on the palate
of the white dawn, chaste,

the slant of a fate line
in its inscrutable incline

mirror throwing a shadow
that you don't know.


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Dr Ajanta Paul is an academic from Kolkata, India who writes poetry, short stories and literary criticism. A Pushcart nominee, Ajanta has lately been lucky with literary journals such as Verse-Virtual, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Shot Glass Journal and Offcourse. Her latest publications are The Elixir Maker and Other Stories (2019) and American Poetry: Colonial to Contemporary (2021).