Kiran Bhat
A stranger on the bus asks: What do you love the most?
一个在公交的陌生人说：你最爱什么？
客然脑说：
抚摸狗的肥胖胡子
看空心电视，
做我的父母高兴。
我在写好的时候休息。
然后客然脑明确了：但是这些东西满足我的精神，不我的身体。
红树林，特别明丽，颜色切我的舌头。
特别包揽的母，它们有龙的照耀。
但是他们不是野生。
我看他们给我想想
一千火。
一百跳舞的吉卜赛人。
我的未来的爱人。
用最古老的交流的工具 –
性高潮，语言， 触动 –
我尝试了解人类。
这些是我的做爱的东西。
A stranger on the bus asks: What do you love the most?
Kiran says:
To pet a dog on its belly.
To watch mindless television.
To make my parents happy.
To rest after writing well.
Kiran then clarifies: but this is how to please my mind and not my body.
A mangrove, so bright, it’s color cuts my tongue.
Eyes so sapphire, they belong to the dragon,
But these are eyes that do not belong to the wild,
A thousand naked flames—
One hundred gypsies in dance—
But to my future lover.
Communicating through the primal tools of humanity to understand another person’s self.
Orgasm, language, touch.
These are a few of my favorite things.
Kiran Bhat is the author of the poetry collections Autobiografia (Letrame Editorial, 2019) and Kiran Speaks (White Elephant Press, 2019), as well as the Kannada-language travelogue Tirugaatha (Chiranthana Media Solutions, 2019) and the novel We of the Forsaken World (Iguana Books, 2019). He has traveled to over 130 countries, lived in 18 different places, and speaks 12 languages. He considers Mumbai his spiritual base, but currently lives in Melbourne.
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