Indian Summer (poem)
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"Indian Summer" is a popular English poem by Indian poet Jayanta Mahapatra. The poem is widely anthologised in important poetry collections and is used as standard reading material in the English syllabus of most Indian schools, colleges and universities. The poem was originally a part of his collection A Rain of Rites.
- Over the soughing of the sombre wind
- Priests chant louder than ever.
- The mouth of India opens :
- Crocodiles move into deeper waters.
- The good wife lies on my bed
- through the long afternoon
- dreaming still, not exhausted
- by the deep roar of funeral pyres.
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