Frontispiece: Radha-Krishna, ca. 1735–1757, used by permission of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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© 2004 by Andrew Schelling

Poems 38, 46, 54, 68, 81, 84, 86, 87, and 97 originally appeared in The Cane Groves of Narmada River, © 1998 by Andrew Schelling.

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