Kannada original: IRULALLI ಇರುಳಲ್ಲಿ
Poet: Kamalakar Kadave Bhat
English translation: S. Jayasrinivasa Rao
AT MIDNIGHT
Who is wailing at this midnight hour?
Can’t they get any sleep?
Clutching a flashlight,
I looked for the source of the wail.
The grass sweating in the moonlight,
the potholed sky at night
stopped me and drove me
back to my warm bed.
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