Weed That Grows in Cemetries Nirmal Ghoshs the Weeds That Grow in Cemeteries is a moody, poignant collection of 109 poems of love, loss, and longing. The speaker addresses an unnamed 'you, who is always on the verge of departing; their unions and goodbyes play out on cold Irish mornings, across the Perfume River, in the Tuileries amid the flowers of spring, during late summer in Manila, above the tombs of Samarkand. The poet examines how the nature of time changes in the aftermath of loss, how love transforms the seasons, and how elemental forces echo our internal lives.