Muliebrity (Excerpt)
I have thought so much about the girl
who gathered cow-dung in a wide, round basket
along the main road passing by our house
and the Radhavallabh temple in Maninagar...
and the power glistening through her cheekbones
each time she found a particularly promising
mound of dung –
Search For My Tongue (Excerpt)
You ask me what I mean
by saying I have lost my tongue.
I ask you, what would you do
if you had two tongues in your mouth,
and lost the first one, the mother tongue,
and could not really know the other,
the foreign tongue.
Sujata Bhatt
