Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
The sloping mountain is trying to reach me
stretching down into the water.
Dear one, don’t go away,
rest, rest on my shoulder.
Deep in my centre a woman is asleep
pressing her cheek on my pillow
vivid with dreams.
The birds of summer are nesting in her breast.
Who knows which way the spinning current will spin.
Farewell blind mountain, pasted on the sky.
When the day is folded away
my heart clings to the life of water —
Into the deep, into the sea green
navigating on a heartbeat
the lilies are shooting up like swordfish,
and the woman is laughing, laughing.
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