Journal of South Asian Literature. v 11, V. 11 ( 1976) p. 82.


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82

IN RETROSPECT

You might as well

be locked in a cage

and I the visitor

to feed you there

with cheapest nuts

(I call them thoughts)

for all the difference

it seems to makeo

No, it is not the fault

of the caf@, it is not,

believe me, the time or place

but the haphazard destinies,

yours and mine,

that close us in, saving

from this London season

nothing rare or true

but only a familiar view,

the invisible landscape of love,

The spring was late but I was impatient. I used too many words, and now I know:

There is a point in being obscure about the luminous, the pure musical phases of living which ought to be delicately improvised and left alone.



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