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SEMINAR OF THE CROWS
\n<\/strong><\/span>Fruit and meat stalls are so tempting!
\nWhen the seminar ends,
\ncrows fly down on the bits of meat
\nscattered around
\nLet them peck at half-rotten fruits<\/p>\n

BLIND DUCK
\n<\/strong><\/span>In the moan of the wetlands
\ndroplets of tears\u2014
\nwhen the feet knot round
\nrotten paddies
\nthe mad man pats his chest,
\ncuts loose a roar of laughter
\nwhen all gold sinks in the waters,
\none need to keep sitting like
\na blind duck<\/p>\n

SHADOW-THOUGHT
\n<\/span><\/strong>The shadow I walk
\nis touching the soil<\/p>\n

With an axe I come in the edge of
\nthe river
\nsee the river dead
\nWith light in hand
\nI come near the road
\nSee the road dark
\nNot even a shadow there
\nI come to the sky-line
\nDo not see the sky
\nplanted on earth
\nI go in the thick of forest
\nSee no fig flowers bloom
\nWhere\u2019s the shadow?
\nI don\u2019t see any.
\nThe shadow I walk
\nAh, this touches the earth!<\/p>\n

FEAST OF FORMULAS
\n<\/span><\/strong>In distorted chemistry
\nof the morning,
\nbody of the grass
\ntastes tongue of snakes
\nThe nails touch memories
\nof the slough
\nThe water keeps the night afloat
\nAnd the machine keeps eyes awake
\nThe sun dries out towel
\nof emptiness
\nIn the cornice of glass
\nVatsayan leaves behind a feast of
\nformulas<\/p>\n

CELL-SEX<\/span><\/strong>
\nA snake keeps hiding
\nin the keyboard of the cell phone,
\nslowly enters the heart,
\nthe cusp of kisses,
\nand the vagina\u2026
\nthe snake enters,
\na multinational snake<\/p>\n

from the night of coitus
\nfalls conversation of
\nthe dawn<\/p>\n

Translated By Upal Deb<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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