I Won't Let You Go by Rabindranath Tagore

Author:Rabindranath Tagore [Rabindranath Tagore]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780370187
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 2011-06-14T19:00:00+00:00

Memory

A town in the west country.

On its secluded edge

a neglected house beats the day’s heat

with a thatch that dips low on all four sides.

Eternal shadows lie prostrate in the rooms

and a musty smell lives as a permanent prisoner.

A yellow rug on the floor

is printed with images of gunmen hunting tigers.

Under a shishu tree a road of white soil heads north:

there the wind blows

like a fine-spun wrap on the fierce sunlight’s limbs.

On the sandbank in front are fields of wheat, cajan, melons,

water-melons.

Ganga glitters in the distance.

Boats being towed

look like ink sketches.

On the veranda, Bhajiya, silver bangles on her wrist,

grinds wheat between stones

and sings in a monotonous drone.

Girdhari the doorman has been sitting next to her

for a long time, under who-knows-what pretext.

Beneath the old neem tree the gardener draws

water from a well with a bullock’s help.

The midday’s wistful with its creaks

and the field of sweetcorn shimmers in water-streams.

The warm wind wafts the faint scent of mango buds

and tells us that bees have gathered on the mahaneem’s flowers.

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