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Vasant Abaji Dahake

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Moon

Like a wild bull the moon
charges headlong
through green unearthly thickets.
Sharp-teeth-torn, the water
shivers all night.

All night
a broadsword strokes,
from base to nape, the spine.

© Translation: 2004, Ranjit Hoskote

MOON

From: Yogabhrashta
Publisher: Mauj Prakashan Griha, Mumbai

Vasant Abaji Dahake

Vasant Abaji Dahake

Born in 1942, Vasant Abaji Dahake is a well-known Marathi poet, critic, essayist, novelist and short fiction writer. His first collection of poems, Yogabhrashta (1972), instantly established him as a successor to the early modernists in Marathi literature such as Mardhekar, P.S. Rege and Vinda Karandikar.

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Moon

Like a wild bull the moon
charges headlong
through green unearthly thickets.
Sharp-teeth-torn, the water
shivers all night.

All night
a broadsword strokes,
from base to nape, the spine.

© 2004, Ranjit Hoskote
From: Yogabhrashta

Moon

Like a wild bull the moon
charges headlong
through green unearthly thickets.
Sharp-teeth-torn, the water
shivers all night.

All night
a broadsword strokes,
from base to nape, the spine.

© 2004, Ranjit Hoskote

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