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.
Feast Time
Feast Time
Rati Saxena
translated from Hindi by Sudeep Sen and the author
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.
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