Leap, dear, flounce

unshutter the 20th floor aluminium window

and spring into air waving aboriginal hemcloth

uncoiffured plumes would float on pounce

dance-feet minuet in a pulsating show

hurl and alight aglow

clutch the torso of the wind and feel

the way it fondles your twiddled keel

dismantle at my feet.

Bone and flesh and guts in formless gleam

lips and thighs and tattered teat

antfeed of abstract glue

the unrestorable you

when soul would swim in sunbeam row

since the incurred fall was just untrue .

(Translation of the Bengali poem SHUDDHO CHETANAR RAHASYA

written in 1986)