Cerebration

SUMMER: A MOSAIC: SACHIN KETKAR

Sachin Ketkar is one of the distinctive voices in new Marathi poetry. He is a bilingual writer and translator writing in Marathi and English. `Bhintishivaichya Khidkitun Dokavtana' is his collection of Marathi poems and `A Dirge for the Dead Dog and other Incantations' is his collection of English poems. Recently he edited and translated ` Live Update: An Anthology of Recent Marathi Poetry' published by Poetrywala, Mumbai. Sachin Ketkar has a PhD in translation studies and currently is a Reader in the Dept of English, Faculty of Arts at MS University of Baroda, Vadodara. His critical essays on translation studies and poetry have been widely published.

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The ball hit hard and high by a cricketer

Becomes a myna and flies away


Saliva of a panting dog

Turns into thousands of diamonds


Thousands of sweatblind faces

Writhe in the rotting hell of trains


Clothes hanging in the balconies of the apartments

Like the thoughts from middle class minds


The summer prowls around smelling

Like a sexed tomcat.


But from the sieve of a dried peepal fly away

The flocks of white doves.




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