I The Lush Green Jungle:Vaharu Sonawane

Vaharu Sonawane

I The Lush Green Jungle

In the lush green jungle

Those tattered huts

Like scattered teak leaves.

In that wild wood, wild people

Eating roots and bulbs

But…

No bulbs. No roots.

All vanished long before

Into the hollow stomach

Of a fearsome hunger.

In the green jungle

Naked children

Playing games

Of primitive communism

And slavery

In the mud before their huts.

Translated by Priya Adarkar