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Did your diamond catch the light
From the lobby chandelier?
Or was it my crystal tumbler that winked?
Is the token for our overcoats
In your bejeweled little purse?

We have a box, we have a box,
I can at least stretch my legs,
And you have your eyeglass.

Tchaikovsky is flippant today
Like a small boat rudderless
Near a desolate white beach.
Fishermen have gathered up their nets
Under halogen streetlights, it will snow.

You hold my hand
And let the music flow,
And all the while I play with words
Up lighted through falling snow.

Ashok Niyogi was born in 1955 and graduated with Honors in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata, India. He has been in international trade and has travelled the world over including a 10-year stint as an expatriate in Yeltsin's Russia. His poems have been published widely. Ashok has two books of poetry in India: Crossroads and Reflections in the Dark and one book of poems from USA, entitled Tentatively. He has been published extensively online and in print in the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada in magazines and anthologies.

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