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Friday, October 31, 2003

While we are still at it, one more from the same poet. This is an old Tamil song translated so effectively by A K Ramanujan. I am not very sure, but I guess the song is from the author's translation volume, Interior Landscapes, a translation of 'Aganaanuru', which deals with the courtship, marital love labyrinth.

What could my
mother be to yours?
What kin is my father
to yours anyway?
And how did you and
I meet ever? But in
love our hearts have
mingled like red earth
and pouring rain.