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Dance

kuzhoor wilson

Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 In the garden in Corniche
In the playground bound by a metal fence,
While the Arab teenage kicks the ball,
The feet of the Sudanese, sitting on the stone bench nearby
Start prickling;

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Cries out that
For one who knows how to score goals,
The hunger to kick a ball
Is the ultimate one!

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Me? I shall remain nameless!

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 The fisherman
Whose whole body tingles
As he espies a shiver of gigantic sharks
Even while swimming for life,
Having lost his boat and fishing net in the deluge,

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 The nun
As she watches a bawling baby,
Standing amidst toddlers of the nursery

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 The swimmer,
Who crawls through the desert
On camel-back

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 I do not ask for anything else
Just the ball and the opposition
Let a thousand, or tens of thousands come,
Let the goal-mouth
Be miles distant,
I do not ask for anything else

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 Once, while carrying a load of cement
On the tenth floor,
For a moment,
A moment,
The sun tempted, as a huge ball.

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 The scar of the beating received
While dribbling the sun on the sky meadow
Remains on the back..

10 Leave a comment on verse 10 0 There are balls anyone can play with.

11 Leave a comment on verse 11 0 No, all surges ahead
Do not end in goals.
There are no games that do not have ‘foul’ –
Even in dreams.
There are no Arab children
In the playground now.

12 Leave a comment on verse 12 0 Jut the ball, ball, ball alone.

13 Leave a comment on verse 13 0 It scurries hither and thither
By itself,
Races outside,
Speeds towards the goal-mouth,
Sometimes ducks out of sight.

14 Leave a comment on verse 14 0 Very privately,
And even more secretly,
Ball smiled at me.
A shudder of incarnations
In my toes.

15 Leave a comment on verse 15 0 As soon as the ball and feet
Left the playground,
Two legs
Started dancing,
Betwixt twilight and night.

© kuzhoor@

Notes

(trans from Malayalam by Anitha Varma)

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