7/24/2019 Lear's Prayer

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Lears Prayer to Tragedy

[Published in Wasafiri: International Contemporary Writing(Issue 21: Spring 1995India, South Asia and the Diaspora)]

Giver of daughters and sons!earer of a"putated lights#no$er of the $orld and its $aters%hoose "e no$ for "&ther&'%lothe "e in ar"s and flo$ersash "e in herbs and loudsStand "e b& the aborted da&*hat I "a& +no$ thee in unti"ed dar+'*hen perhaps $ith t$isted e&e and lipI "a& spea+ of seeing thee undead,nd spell so"e sense out of regalia'

%hoose "e as van-uished orale,nd in te"ples of repusular treesI $ill insribe th& lo$n.s heartbeatIn histrionis of $hooshing leaves'/nretrating provider of hubri sins0ove "e fa"ousl&'