What Is Needed Is A Sudden Turn Poem by Binoy Majumdar

What Is Needed Is A Sudden Turn

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What is needed is a sudden turn
leaving the swift hand that plucks butterflies out of the air
gaping at a loss.
The others exist pale and ghostly as stars
brought to brief life by a total eclipse of the sun.
But I cannot change my course now; can the leopard
unspin its leap in midair?
Moreover, they may still be wrong. She can yet appear.
Cream rises only if one lets boinling milk stand and cool.

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Translated by Jyotirmoy Datta
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Binoy Majumdar

Binoy Majumdar

Myanmar
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