Beyond Land and Time

Where All Have Gone

(Kothāi Giyєchє)

Translated by Farzana Afrose

Where have they gone, all those birds, all those

horses in our age—

The woman of that white house?

In fragrance of acacia, flown away

in the colour of golden sunlight

All those birds, and all those horses

Have deserted us away from our world;

O my heart!—tell me where all have gone today!

Blackout: silent like a dead pear.