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    The poem describes the scene of dawn at the holy city of Puri. It depicts a skull tilting towards hunger in the holy sands, white-clad widowed women waiting to enter the Great Temple past the centers of their lives, with austere eyes staring like those caught in a net of dawn's shining strands of faith. It also depicts the early light catching ruined shells of leprous people leaning against one another in a mass of crouched faceless faces, and the poet's aging mother's last wish to be cremated at Puri, twisting uncertainly like light on the shifting sands.

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    The poem describes the scene of dawn at the holy city of Puri. It depicts a skull tilting towards hunger in the holy sands, white-clad widowed women waiting to enter the Great Temple past the centers of their lives, with austere eyes staring like those caught in a net of dawn's shining strands of faith. It also depicts the early light catching ruined shells of leprous people leaning against one another in a mass of crouched faceless faces, and the poet's aging mother's last wish to be cremated at Puri, twisting uncertainly like light on the shifting sands.

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    Dawn at Puri

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    The poem describes the scene of dawn at the holy city of Puri. It depicts a skull tilting towards hunger in the holy sands, white-clad widowed women waiting to enter the Great Temple past the centers of their lives, with austere eyes staring like those caught in a net of dawn's shining strands of faith. It also depicts the early light catching ruined shells of leprous people leaning against one another in a mass of crouched faceless faces, and the poet's aging mother's last wish to be cremated at Puri, twisting uncertainly like light on the shifting sands.

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    Dawn at Puri

    Jayanta Mahapatra

    Endless crow noises


    A skull in the holy sands
    tilts its empty country towards hunger.

    White-clad widowed Women


    past the centers of their lives
    are waiting to enter the Great Temple

    Their austere eyes


    stare like those caught in a net
    hanging by the dawn's shining strands of faith.

    The fail early light catches


    ruined, leprous shells leaning against one another,
    a mass of crouched faces without names,

    and suddenly breaks out of my hide


    into the smoky blaze of a sullen solitary pyre
    that fills my aging mother:

    her last wish to be cremated here


    twisting uncertainly like light
    on the shifting sands

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