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Volume 1 | Issue 1 | March 2006 | 












Mountain Nights
Rati Saxena
 

1.
Last night
there was a dream
And
In the dream – You

You
You
And

Only you
Where was I?


2.
Before your arrival
I knew some names
Mountain, river, lake, waterfall

You introduced me to
Tents of snow camping on the mountains
Storms rising in the rivers
The tiniest waves of a lake
Singing waterfalls

And

to myself

But it was you I wanted to be friends with !


3.
Last night
Earthworms lost their way
and crept into snakepits.
Finding no room, snakes
created a stir in the sea.
No, no,
Nothing happened to the fish.
They stayed in the sea,
And as if looking for - for what -
Totally forgot to swim.

No one called the bubbling earth.
Neither the sky
Nor the sea.

I stayed up last night
on the tree.


5
Last night
the sky was so close
that I could cover myself.
The mountain too, sat,
smoking.
The sea kept
caressing my feet.
Only I was not there,
Maybe I was roaming
with wild animals.

6
They say
his nights are like mountains.
Mine was like
sluggish water.
Yet
The night stayed awake
in my eyes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
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