Sreekhol Sophistry

What splendid fruit
The upside down tree bears
That tree -
The roots touch the sky

From that tree
The fruit is ripe, but hangs
Sans stem,
Where many tender ones
Have fallen to rot

If that tree is cut
It lives
If not,
It dies...

- On a banyan tree by Sarat Baul


Bidut Rajbongshi on the Sreekhol