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208<br />

third Sutra<br />

28 Dec 2004, Bingil Bay<br />

It’s none of us going to India this time<br />

but India coming to us on screens<br />

as the ocean comes to the people of<br />

Mammalapuram, on the eastern shore.<br />

These poems congeal<br />

and the poets are still not ready. 7<br />

The shoreline temples, the giant<br />

boulders, the carved elephants<br />

are not enough to hold back<br />

the fury of earth’s waters.<br />

Where once was tourism and haggling<br />

is now carnage and despair.<br />

Where is the woman who sold me the sarong<br />

Where are the men fixing nets<br />

Where are the children and the puppies<br />

Where are the shopkeepers,<br />

7 Suniti Namjoshi in her poem “Nov 1970 Cyclone in Pak.” asks if the poets could<br />

be ready the next time a disaster of this magnitude occurs. And in 1991 she<br />

answers her own question saying, that they are not and never can be. Suniti<br />

Namjoshi. 1993. St Suniti and the Dragon, p. 52.

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