Sounding the Border
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An anthropologist-poet listens to echoes of laughter and other sounds of crossings in Kashmir.
In the house once occupied by soldiers
laughter echoes
as three women sing
Yamberzal sutures a song
Banafsha, her daughter, gathers a distich
and urges her aunt, Sombul, to carry it on ( Names of the interlocutors have been changed to respect their anonymity.)
Outside, dark enfolds the mountains
thousands of stars gather in clandestine assemblages
a brook gushes inconsolably
bright yellow flowers
murm
In the house once occupied by soldiers
laughter echoes
as three women sing
Yamberzal sutures a song
Banafsha, her daughter, gathers a distich
and urges her aunt, Sombul, to carry it on ( Names of the interlocutors have been changed to respect their anonymity.)
Outside, dark enfolds the mountains
thousands of stars gather in clandestine assemblages
a brook gushes inconsolably
bright yellow flowers
murm
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