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Issue 27: March 2025
Micro-Poem: 31 words
By Eugene Datta

When She Said

 
Kites 
I looked up and found 
pyramids 

floating. 

When she said 
Blue sky 
birds began 

their flight to light. 

Then a rain 
of night-less days 
followed 

like laughter. 
Eugene Datta
Issue 27 (March 2025)

is the author of the poetry collection Water & Wave (Redhawk Publications, 2024) and the story collection The Color of Noon (Serving House Books, 2024). His work has appeared in publications such as Common Ground Review, The Dalhousie Review, Hamilton Stone Review, The Main Street Rag, Mantis, and elsewhere. A recipient of the Stiftung Laurenz-Haus fellowship, he has held residencies at Ledig House International Writers’ Colony, and Fundación Valparaíso. A native of Calcutta, he lives with his wife and two children in Aachen, Germany.

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Interview with Eugene Datta by Susan Tekulve in South 85 Journal (23 January 2025)

 
 
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