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Vasant Abaji Dahake

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My Burning Chest

On my burning chest I suffer the monsoon’s first showers,
across the film of blood on my eyes a blue light spreads
and in my flesh-marrow-skin the black birds flash
their emerald wings.

MY BURNING CHEST

From: Yogabhrashta
Publisher: Mauj Prakashan Griha, Mumbai

Vasant Abaji Dahake

(India, 1942)

Born in 1942, Vasant Abaji Dahake is a well-known Marathi poet, critic, essayist, novelist and short fiction writer. His first collection of poems, Yogabhrashta (1972), instantly established him as a successor to the early modernists in Marathi literature such as Mardhekar, P.S. Rege and Vinda Karandikar.

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My Burning Chest

On my burning chest I suffer the monsoon’s first showers,
across the film of blood on my eyes a blue light spreads
and in my flesh-marrow-skin the black birds flash
their emerald wings.

My Burning Chest

On my burning chest I suffer the monsoon’s first showers,
across the film of blood on my eyes a blue light spreads
and in my flesh-marrow-skin the black birds flash
their emerald wings.