I have written before about taking a train to my hometown Patna. This evening I translated two train poems, from Hindi, by the Patna poet Alokdhanwa for @TheTakeaway #ThisIsWhere.
Junction
Ah, Junction!
Where trains stop for long
Collecting water for the rest
Of the journey
I search there
For my old fellow travelers
Train
Every kind man has a train
That goes toward his mother’s house
Stretching its whistle
Blowing smoke