Nature

How far Man has advanced! Hypnotised by ceaseless shower I am sitting on my own heels even today. While planting the tender paddy seedlings into the soil, thick and soft like khir, I thought the soil to be my beloved wife who like a piece of boggy land, uncovers all her fertility with her pleasant watery shyness. Fields getting wet in rain. I feel a hand soaked in water on my back. And losing all the feeling-marks of sense I've made my benumbed sight remain vigilant. All day long it rains incessantly everywhere like the spell of khana. Silently I observe the water-snakes running after fishes fleeing away beside the edge of fields; the green grasshoppers leaping in fright on my arms. It seems that the graph of fields tied with ridges having the touch of rain's fog has changed suddenly in trance of my dreams by an unbelievable magicspell; and the beautiful earth has been divided in the shape of a triangle. From that geometry the flocks of fishes, birds, animals and human beings come out successively and surrounding my sensation, start eating picking up the contradictory foods. [Translated by Sayeed Abubakar] Translator's Not: Khir:. Porridge-like food, sweet and tasty. Khana: Astrological predictions.