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A visit

09 Tuesday Jul 2013

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On June 27, 2013, Uttrang K Khalsa drove all the way from Perugia, Italy, in her Fiat Cinquecento to study a dilruba —a song some, and said hello!
We sat in silence for a few hours;
she sat where she sat and I, where I was, then she left.
A canvas thus built.

Back in Napoli the next day in anticipation of my flight to the US, Luigi helped me with preparing the Japanese ink from the dry ink biscuits she’d brought. She had also brought some fine paper – seems acid free.
Calligraphy I did – a drawing I did, marking her visit:

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Going spiral…

06 Wednesday Mar 2013

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Sumandeep sent me this after reading my last post/poem:

http://www.evergreenlight.blogspot.in/2009/09/night.html

This is what I did immediately after:

When I went spiral
in an unending nose-dive or
soar
I do not know.

I do not wish to know
for I could still inhale
inhale deep within.
For my stomach was filled
so I inhaled deep within
the nectar
heart pounding
loudly steadily
then there it was
no fear but love
none alien
all in the compassionate
It was so tangible
so real
I could touch it
I could embrace it
only to realize that
I was touched
I was embraced
it was just a matter of grace…
just a matter of dhyan
just a matter of gyan
—thus I died.
Sunn.
Samadhi.

Dedicated to Budhadeb and Christa Chattopadhyay. 2013. GNDU, Amritsar.

Unfinished but…
Dedicated to Budhadeb and Christa Chattopadhyaya. 2013. GNDU, Amritsar.