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Sridala Swami

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TESTAMENT

From you I learnt
to winnow words
give them room to breathe
silence in which to grow
grass-wild.

A single flower
at a difficult summer’s end
will bloom fiercely
and for a long time.

Sridala Swami

(India, 1971)

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TESTAMENT

From you I learnt
to winnow words
give them room to breathe
silence in which to grow
grass-wild.

A single flower
at a difficult summer’s end
will bloom fiercely
and for a long time.