WORLD VOICES

HEAT
  BY SUDEEP SEN


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About the Author
Introduction

Mediterranean
One Moonlit December
   Night

Flying Home
Desire
Bharatanatyam Dancer
Dreaming of Cézanne
Heather
Carole
Feminine Musk
Winter
Matrix
Almaya, Jaffa
Prayer Call: Heat
Offering
Kiss

Acknowledgments

Sudeep Sen
Aark Arts
Atlas

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Writers on the Job
Books Forgotten
Thomas E. Kennedy
Walter Cummins
Web Del Sol



One Moonlit December NIght

One moonlit December night
you came knocking at my door,
I took my time to open.
When I did,
there was just a silk scarf,
frayed, half-stuck in the latch.


from The Lunar Visitations (New York, 1990) & Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Confronting Love: Poems (Penguin, 2005), and forthcoming in Blue Nude: New Selected Poems & Translations 1980-2010.