WHEN DREAMS MERGE: A Collection of Translated Maithili Verse

CONTENTS Sections - Poems - Parvas - Cantos PRELIMINARY POEMS....................................................................................... 11 Unfamiliar Letters.................................................................................................................................... 11 Death Song (Folk Song)........................................................................................................................... 11 SECTION I - WHEN DREAMS MERGE........................................................... 12 Beyond the Current of Time, the Light of the Infinite.................................................................. 13 From the Threshold of Questions to the Sky of Liberation........................................................... 21 A Palmful of Earth, Eyes Full of Truth............................................................................................ 25 Dew of Seven Directions on a Single Leaf........................................................................................ 29 Dawn Unknotting the Knots of Sorrow.......................................................................................... 36 The Flame Keeps Changing, the Light Moves On.......................................................................... 40 Four Windows and One Open Sky................................................................................................... 43 The Home No Fist Can Hold........................................................................................................... 47 The One Who Sees Beyond the Mirror............................................................................................ 51 A Still Sky Within the Breath............................................................................................................ 55 Each Particle Has Its Own Face......................................................................................................... 58 The Fire Beyond the Smoke............................................................................................................... 62 An Unnamed Light Behind Many Names....................................................................................... 66 The Sky Within, the Sky Without.................................................................................................... 69 Three Doors, Toward the Same Infinite.......................................................................................... 72 A New Dawn Waking Between Two Winds................................................................................... 77 SECTION II - DREAM, WAKEFULNESS AND BLENDED TIME................ 83