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Before I laughed with him
nightly,

the slow waves beating
on his wide shores
and the palmyra
bringing forth heron-like flowers
near the waters,
my eyes were like the lotus
my arms had the grace of the bamboo
my forehead was mistaken for the moon.

But now
Jan 24, 2018 02:46PM
The Interior Landscape: Classical Tamil Love Poems (NYRB Poets)

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