Poetry at Sangam

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THE SHADOW RISES BEFORE ME by Roselyne Sibille

(Translated from the French by Karthika Nair.)

The Shadow rises before me

I will carve a figure just to my scale
that I can step inside

I will dry my feet of clay in the conflagration

I will wait amidst the birds whom I will not see

The expanses will be blue

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