Author: Daiarisa Rumnong Pages: 114 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹400 ISBN: 978-81-985733-7-7 (9788198573377)

About the Author Dr Daiarisa Rumnong is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at St. Mary’s College, Shillong, Meghalaya. She believes that poetry holds truth and power. She is humbled by the wisdom of words, imagery, metaphors and all that language can encompass. Daiarisa sees poetry as a sacred gift which is to be experienced with the eyes of the soul, and not to be trifled with.

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The Well

What a surplus stock of tears one holds. They may hide in sorrow. They may appear in joy. They are the moss-covered river stones I try to manoeuvre. Alluring in their round existence, unmoving under a sheet of ripples.

In the space made pure by pools of word and sun, love and loneliness. If it is man or woman, the same well is moved. A well who breaks into a jigsaw of roles. A well who laps against scars and wounds. A well who sings of perpetual impulse.

What moves you? Please deliberate. Chew those bones and transpose them onto paper for a scroll of sticks and stones to roll out.

The nuance in the pitch of truth. A truth who tells us we are inheritors of imperfection. A civilization propped up by its trees whose bridges are wisdom-roots poised and grounded. Its rivers swelling, shrinking, persisting to retain structure. Its caves who outline subterranean light exposing storied earth.

May rain-tears pause you as they stir jigsaw breaths, as they appease scars and wounds, as they stride undulated impulse.

Contents 50 poems spread across 8 sections