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Nirupama Dutt

PASSING CENTURY

In the last few years of the century
the poem will find itself
beneath the moon of the second night
beyond the grove of the trees
sitting on a bench in the
dark corner of the park
in your fond embrace
and thus forgive the passing century
many of its sins

PASSING CENTURY

Nirupama Dutt

Nirupama Dutt

(India, 1955)

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PASSING CENTURY

PASSING CENTURY

In the last few years of the century
the poem will find itself
beneath the moon of the second night
beyond the grove of the trees
sitting on a bench in the
dark corner of the park
in your fond embrace
and thus forgive the passing century
many of its sins
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