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    Joy Goswami

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    MA COMES AND STANDS

    Ma comes and stands
    by the window

    The river swift below

    Leaping out of the water rows of burning snakes

    I come to the river to pick up
    my iron-fettered flute

    By the window high in the sky
    Ma comes and stands

    then moves away.
    © Translation: 2005, Sampurna Chattarji

    MA COMES AND STANDS

    © 1999, Joy Goswami
    From: Surjo-Pora Chhai
    Publisher: Ananda Publishers, Kolkata
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    MA COMES AND STANDS

    Ma comes and stands
    by the window

    The river swift below

    Leaping out of the water rows of burning snakes

    I come to the river to pick up
    my iron-fettered flute

    By the window high in the sky
    Ma comes and stands

    then moves away.
    © 2005, Sampurna Chattarji
    From: Surjo-Pora Chhai

    MA COMES AND STANDS

    Ma comes and stands
    by the window

    The river swift below

    Leaping out of the water rows of burning snakes

    I come to the river to pick up
    my iron-fettered flute

    By the window high in the sky
    Ma comes and stands

    then moves away.
    © 2005, Sampurna Chattarji
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