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and they met
like light inside light
and Rama was riding a hill
with four white tusks all ablaze
and Lakshamana with him and they approached
in fluttering waves of white and dazzling burning flowers and she flew up to him
and they touched and her hands flew further up
to touch the sun and moon
one for each
and they stayed there unmoving high over Lanka
And again in a dream 1 saw Rama
bathed in shining white folds
and flying flowers and Lakshamana with him
in a chariot pulled by eight white bulls And 1 saw that wonderful Rama
his greatness and power with his brother Lakshamana
and with Sita fly in their burning chariot of flowers
to the end of the sky
Then 1 saw Ravana
in black cloth oily and the hair shaved off his heads
smashed drunk and drinking still
crooked flowers around his necks and he fell from a fiery chariot
onto the ground and a woman dragged him around
Then I saw him sitting in a chariot
pulled by donkeys and he was wearing red
his body smeared red and drinking
laughing and weaving around his heads on backwards
his eyes backwards in his heads
his words backwards and sideways flying to the other end of the sky