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.
 
Teaser
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