Europeans,
For some reason, do not
As a rule
Ride bicycles - travel

In public buses, or
Go third class on trains. they seem to want

To be as far as possible
Away from India
While they're there: the car
Or taxi window is
Safe, like a television screen. 'Look -

A man with a python! ...An elephant!...
Did you see, that
Man we just passed
Was handcuffed, to two others!' They turn round
And stare out of the window.
Wonderful!...Lost is all

Sense of reality, as one turns
Over the pages of the coloured magazine
Called India. They close it
Even
Genuinely moved...

from Exposed

Selected Poems is a comprehensive selection of poetry written over seven decades. His unique style emphasises belief in a unity between inner and outer worlds, between subjective and objective, between the poetry, the philosophy and the private life of the poet. This celebration of this world in verse has a clarity and purity with an uninsistent but subtle drama.