HAUNTED - September 12th, 1980
By Sarah Das Gupta
Driving one sunny day
my daughter beside me,
along a stretch of road,
grey, dusty to the horizon.
We suddenly see
a tall figure walking
through a field of stubble,
pink in the early sun.
Odd dress- black jacket,
an exotic figure among
the short, stubby corn stalks.
His top hat strange,
yet completely appropriate;
buttonhole a red rose?
No, a wound with blood spouting!
The figure begins singing?
No, he’s silently, piercingly screaming!
Thick, sticky gouts of blood
dribbling, drabbling from his stomach.
Holding his life in his hands,
keeping his stomach in place.
Vanishing into woodland,
sunlight highlights his
scarlet-tinged pathway.
September 12th, 1880
BRIDEGROOM STABBED
IN CORNFIELD
Sarah Das Gupta is an 81 year young retired teacher from near Cambridge, UK who also taught in India and Tanzania. She started writing last October while bored by a long stay in hospital,following an accident. Her work has been published in 12 countries including- US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Germany, Croatia and Romania. Writing has given her the drive and inspiration to learn to walk again.
