Thursday, Feb 2, 2023: Diana Rosen's "Crossing the Teesta River Over the Suspension Bridge"
Diana Rosen is an essayist, poet, and flash writer whose first full-length flash and poetry book, "High Stakes & Expectations", was released in spring of 2022. She has work forthcoming in Drunk Monkeys and The Reform Jewish Quarterly and recent credits in Pine Cone Review, Ariel Chart Literary Journal, As It Ought to be Magazine, and Al-Khemia Poetica . To read more of her work, please visit and subscribe to www.authory.com/dianarosen Crossing the Teesta River Over the Suspension Bridge The four of us are in the Indian-style Jeep. Devan, our driver, is at the wheel; our host, Rajah, next to him; Alexander and I claim the seat. I’m visiting Darjeeling to write about tea. Alexander is a German graduate student here to study biodynamic farming and insects for a degree from University. We’re off on a side trip to Sikkim where we will meet the former prince of an independent country that’s now a reluctant state of India. It’s already been quite an adventure. At one point,...