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Rati Saxena

Give me such a timetable
where my own time isn’t there.
 
Then give me a timetable
where only my own time exists.
 
I will drink both timetables
like thick milky-mango-juice.
 
Then time will be inside me,
and I will be free of it.

translated from Hindi by Sudeep Sen and the author

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Rati Saxena is a poet, translator, and editor. She is also the festival director of the Kritya International Poetry Festival. She has published twelve books of poetry and prose, twelve of translations, and a critical work on the renowned Malayalam poet Balamani Amma. Her work, The Seeds of the Mind, is a fresh approach to the study of Atharvaveda.

Rati Saxena

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