At noon
I'm looking at my corpse
blocking the sluice of the tank
Moving hither thither
from the wind's blows
my corpse has bloated
after slipping into the sluice
Perhaps now
I'll look
at the corpse breaking up the sluice.
My translation of the Telugu poem 'ika ippuDu' (from the 1996 collection of Dalit poetry 'padunekkina pATa') by Jugash Vili.
Tags: Jugash Vili