I inscribe my delirious incoherence And chart charades On this paper
Disband the entire Alphabet And again bind it together After rending and bending And knocking on it like a nail I hang strands of ideas on it The dangling ropes become wash lines With fluttering clothes wet and dry
On this unrolled paper Words surge like teeming ants Swarming towards a grain of sugar
A net is knit And is cast into water When drawn out Not even water is trapped
Sometimes a web is woven And the prey remains outside
Overwhelmed with letters This paper From within Remains Blank
Ramanik Someshwar took early retirement from the Banking Service to dedicate his time to reading and writing poetry. He is closely acquainted with World Poetry and contemporary Indian Poetry. He has been translated into many Indian languages and has received several awards. He has translated the works of many poets into Gujarati. He has published several volumes of poems and is included in many anthologies.
Dileep Jhaveri is a practicing general physician based in Mumbai and a well-known Gujarati poet and playwright. He has published several collections of poetry in Gujarati. Recently, he has published three books of poetry in the United States, Once This Mist Clears (2014), Fire Writes in Several Scripts (2015), Magic and Miracles (2017), as well as a group of non-fiction essays entitled The House of Three Widows all done by The New Feral Press. His latest translation is titled Breath Becoming a Word: Contemporary Gujarati Poetry in English Translation published by Sahitya Akademi Ahmedabad.
