Kunwar Narain
ASIAN ART
 
The Rest of the Poem

Water falling on leaves means one thing
Leaves falling on water another.
Between gaining life fully

and giving it away fully
stands a full death-mark.

The rest of the poem
is written not with words—
Drawing the whole of existence, like a full stop,
it is complete at any point.

Translated from the Hindi by Lucy Rosenstein.


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