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letters to krishna
 
by arvind joshi
 
 
1: riddle 16: waiting
2: girls 17: john
3: milan 18: songdog
4: sudaama 19: photograph
5: raajkumar 20: city
6: dream 21: eleven
7: theysay 22: winter
8: summer 23: ridge
9: deathwise 24: with the cows
10: rains 25: telling
11: rama 26: ma
12: autumn 27: ungrown
13: feeling 28: nothing
14: sir 29: parikshit
15: feet 30: yudhishtra
  31: arjuna
32: draupadi
1. riddle

In the land of men, the city with no Indra
We come, gather, we seek out our kind.
I, and mine voices also.

What do they want, tell me Madhav.

Need I land?
                     nechchaami!
Land is everywhere, water and sky and land and.

Run fingers through your hair-

Need I car? A silver plane?
                                          But to where?
                                                          nechchaami!

Pillar to pillar
Pace.

kimichchati? kim?

Need I life?
nechchaami! etadapi asti etadapi nechchami!

Need I death then, perhaps?
          nechchami! nechchami sakha nechchami!

At hand is the backdoor that swingzz in the wind.

Go back to the cows,
                           stroke the udders,
kimasti? kimasti? kim amushyaha ichchasti?

How should you know me then?
How, should you know me then!

I am a namesake, remember?
      But there are plenty, you'd say.

Nanda's son! Mayanandana!
But
soaham! soaham!
  You'd slap your thigh.

Go back to Vraja.
                          Knot the loincloth
Neatly at a corner of your waist,
kosti? kosti? kim amushyaha ichchasti?
                                                                 Ask the people.

mitraagyat bhavati agyaatashch bhavati mitra,
                                                                          aho sakha!

 

But once
            We were the inseparables, and
You were on the gang,
And pitched battles we fought
Over seesaws and swings,
And you could lift a mountain clean on a finger,
And I could draw a simple house
With the alphabet A.

next: girls

 
 
1: riddle 16: waiting
2: girls 17: john
3: milan 18: songdog
4: sudaama 19: photograph
5: raajkumar 20: city
6: dream 21: eleven
7: theysay 22: winter
8: summer 23: ridge
9: deathwise 24: with the cows
10: rains 25: telling
11: rama 26: ma
12: autumn 27: ungrown
13: feeling 28: nothing
14: sir 29: parikshit
15: feet 30: yudhishtra
  31: arjuna
32: draupadi
 
   
 
 
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