Sufiana by Hoshang Merchant

Author:Hoshang Merchant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POETRY
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2013-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Mother

Yesterday morning

In my mid-day nap

I dreamt father clinging to me

Rather I to him: Like a plant from earth draws sap

Something was missing

Or rather, someone

It was Mother

The third, a woman, which makes two men complete

In Rodin’s The Kiss it’s man and woman

Intertwined like two trees

Seemingly bearing one fruit from one mouth

Or rather two girls

Supple at waist sprouting into two

from waist down

But you can trace two lineages

in that one mouth

Father and Mother to me

I am the Third

I took birth

When two women fought over a third

A Man

Young then: Atlanta’s race was run

She cheated a little

Hera was displeased

Two women fought too over my birth

I am the one within whom my own seed sleeps

Through deaths and births: Nothing is lost

Nothing ever lost from the heart of a flower

Or, of a girl

So through Mother’s death

In my dream father and son

Cleave each to each through death and old age

An old man in dirtied clothes

While Mother died young: still a young girl

With hair spread down the back

like dark rivulets or snakes running to ground

Going room to room carrying a lamp with lightning flashes

I turn around and you’re gone

Both my parents

Past and present

Old Man and boy

aged crone and girl

I have to live through many men and poems

Dead Mother return to me

Tell me, if you know, something I must learn

(After Buddhadeva Bose)

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