The snail and the train*

         As a thought leaf          
         bedded by frozen dew drops
         I lay upon a rail track
         salivating like a snail

         the morning train
         approaches
         only so many days to go
         seven or eight Saturdays
         a poya or two,
         an hour
         a second

How to evade the crushing,

O Enlightened One
pray, advise!

‘Remove the rail track

             my child’

[*Translation of 'Golubella and Dumriya' by Lal Hegoda]

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