Ankur Betageri

Ankur Betageri is the author of a volume of stories as well as a volume of poems.

Three Poems

Ankur Betageri, 22 September 2016

‘My Type, Your Type’

I am not a type – I never type-speak or leave type-fonts on hands I shake. I expand like a chest of mirrors full of the quiver of knives inside.

Fountain in Lalbagh

An arm wearing its own sparkling sleeve sprung out of twirling pantaloons I lean on the air and watch children gasp –

And when I hit the moss my chin’s V fits into the...

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