your bridge home
Saints and Poets
He got as far as the verse where a god asks a cowherd girl to put her foot on his head, and then he put the stylus down and went to bathe.
He had written eleven and a half cantos of the most beautiful poem in Sanskrit, and then he came to a line he could not put down.
The Gita Govinda has been building toward it the whole way.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.