{To Pramod} 

From the solitary Library Of Babel

Where the infinite libraries fuse together

Radiating into primordial architectures

I unearthed your rare treasures ~

Now that I have

They turn our common heritage

Our ageless pages of The Book Of Sand ~

Achilles and tortoises tentatively resolve

Zeno’s paradoxes of yonder breezing through

The stormy spider mizmazes

In the mystery universes of infinitesimals

Concealed in the magic of point references

Concealed in the linear nature of terruvial time ~

Cretan’s paradox of self-reference

Retains its primal paradoxical nature

Parodying Itself ~

The primal semantics is inevitably

A self-evident self-parody ~ a sacred tautological silence ~

We will evade infinitely regressing arguments

Of the dream within a dream within a dream ~~~~~

From the Raamaayana and The Arabian Nights

And the two ageless mirrors facing each other for ever

Proceed in the timeless faith

Of the key sound-word-cadence

That knows it All resolves it All ~

Sometimes

Wandering through these Circular Ruins

Through the Garden Of Forking Paths

I suffer Funes’s agonizing memory ~

Protean Golem drifts from tale to tale

Freshly disguised every new day ~

All the mythologies parables cosmologies fables are

This moment of no-reference ~

God Bless this point Of Infinite Imaginings ~

I may never see Buenos Aires

Yet Buenos Aires now is part of my vast fable ~

I have re-cognized strange labyrinths of Tlon

Through your non-seeing eyes

Discovering the stars mirrors and roses anew

Discovering the dubious topology of a one–sided coin

Discovering the arithmetic irony of the Babylonian lottery

Sensing a rare geometric smell of the word

Through your chaste etymological meanderings ~

Before I move away

Into another Cosmic Envelope

Into another primeval ecological niche

Become another Imaginary Being

In the book of infinite beings of imaginations

[which I am sure all Beings do]

I must thank my friend

For leading me to your quiet shelf

In The Library Of Babel ~

Honestly I do not possess

A copy of The Book Of Sand ~

If I really did

Why should I wander through

these never ending corridors

of The Library Of Babel ~

Here lies completed

Another inevitable page

In the Book Of Sand ~

I wonder where it rests

Safely in the Library Of Babel ~

Here!?

Circa 1991 ~

Notes ~

This poem written was a surprise to me because there were

about 25 references to Borges’s works and life in this one

~ I had read Borges-Stories many years ago and his

wonderful poetry came in as a great later surprise for me ~

I read poems in the “Selected Poems” ~ There were many poems on other poets and people too ~ This inspired me to try a few poems on people and writers I admired ~ But This One on Borges Himself is my favourite ~ To Borges fans my notes are superfluous ~ But to one who is unfamiliar Borgesian Literature it may give some hints ~

Jorge Luis Borges ~[1899-199?] Argentine Scholar Genius Short Story Writer Poet Orator Conversationalist!! Blind for most latter part of his life ~ Amazing Scholar ~ Librarian ~ Wrote Mostly in Spanish ~ A few English poems were also written by him ~

“Library Of Babel “ ~ A Short Story By Borges ~

“The Book Of Sand” ~ A Short Story By Borges [The Book That Contains All The Books]

“The Babylonian Lottery” ~ A Short Story By Borges

“The Garden Of Forking Paths” ~ A Short Story By Borges

“The Circular Ruins” ~ A Short Story By Borges

“Tlon” refers to a Borges short story “Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius” where the external world is what everybody wants it to be! A great Story ~

“Funes” refers to another Borges short story “Funes The Memorious” where Funes has Infinite memory ~

“One-sided coin” too is from another Borges Short story ~

“Golem” “stars” “mirrors” “Zeno’s paradoxes” are Borgesian Obsessions which I also share ~

“Book Of Imaginary Beings” is the name of a book by Borges ~

These notes are made from memory ~ Exact year of Borges’s Death is not in my memory ~ 199? ~ I wish Borges read this poem on Borges!