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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