An excerpt

Noise noise noise

Sound sound sound

Sealed

in the crack of a giant log

Roaming the street

Rubbish Files

Dust scattered by the saw

Rubbing a pinch full of it

I submerge it this instant

in a coconut full of milk

The bubbling sound

in the coconut shell

is gathered in the beak  

and echoes on the stage

in the theatre

Rattling...kach...kach

in the fist, five little stones

thrown up to the sky in play

The resounding sound

flies around in circles

Poem by Vasant Joshi

                                    Translated by Gopika Jadeja