Marriage is more lonely than solitude
- Adrienne Rich
This room is too small
It cannot hold the anger of two.
This air is insufficient for both
Its already suffocating too
We were two in this house
living at different times
We did not carry the same yoke
this filed is very big to plough
You can strike a match to
the dry leaves and make a fire
You can keep three stones as stove
on the wayside and cook a meal
You can sleep under a tree and get pregnant
The flower pot in the neighbor’s house
can light up your eyes
but you cannot be a dog in the house
where cats are preferred
Behind every successful man
there is a woman
Behind ever successful woman
there is a dissatisfied man
Translated from Kannada by the poet
Prathibha Nandakumar
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