I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Dĕd
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The Body as a Microcosm of the Universe
I think it's in the same strange headspace because I think I probably wrote it earlier. But it comes out actually of an idea that I learned as a dancer which is what Chandraleka, my teacher taught me. This sort of saying that your body is your universe and within it it contains rivers and mountains and everything that's in the world is within the body. And so there's always been I think in multiple traditions in India this idea of the body as microcosm of the universe. So that's why this sense of perspective of what the hurricane looks like from outer space or the bit of duodenum in the body.
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