The Way We Love Something Small By Kimberly Blaeser In Hindi/Urdu Translation Poem by Ravi Kopra

choohee k nayay paida huay bachoN k nirmal nakhoon
moteeoN k rung ke, halkay namoodaar se
zindgi k dwaar ki cHayaya main:
yahaaN hain, nahin, yahaaN nahin.

ek lambi saans hum laitay haiN
cHoti se cHoti cheez dekh kar
cheez hai vo yahaaN, nahin, yahaaN nahin.

ek nagan vark se
takreeban vrit-chaap se,
ek cHoti jehi dundee se -
cHotay, magar baDay, muj ko badalnay main.

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The Way We Love Something Small
Kimberly Blaeser

The translucent claws of newborn mice

this pearl cast of color,

the barely perceptible

like a ghosted threshold of being:

here not here.

The single breath we hold

on the thinnest verge of sight:

not there there.

A curve nearly naked

an arc of almost,

a wisp of becoming

a wand—

tiny enough to change me.