A Lamppost Amid Trees

Orange reflections rising from
the foliage: a forest fire
burning into the night.

Alolika Dutta is a poet based in Bombay. Her work has appeared in The Indian Quarterly, Indian Cultural Forum, The Boston Globe, Scroll, The Punch Magazine, among others, and is forthcoming in The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Poets, The Helter Skelter Anthology of New Writing, and Aainanagar, a bilingual (English and Bangla) journal.

Photo by Dutta.