This poem is taken from PN Review 235, Volume 43 Number 5, May - June 2017.
‘My Muse’ & Other Poems (trans. Sujata Bhatt)
translated by Sujata Bhatt
Later heart later
later heart later
You will have
what is Yours
the east
patient wise
suffering and Yours
rest heart over bones
and ashes
the german sowing
later heart later
You will have
what is Yours
the east
take it
and get me there
later heart
You will know
my camouflage was my skin
i wasn’t inside
i couldn’t get out
...
Later heart later
later heart later
You will have
what is Yours
the east
patient wise
suffering and Yours
rest heart over bones
and ashes
the german sowing
later heart later
You will have
what is Yours
the east
take it
and get me there
later heart
You will know
my camouflage was my skin
i wasn’t inside
i couldn’t get out
...
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