Jejuri excerpt

From Jejuri by Arun Kolatkar

 what is god and what is stone the dividing line if it exists is very thin at jejuri and every other stone is god or his cousin there is no crop other than god and god is harvested here around the year and round the clock out of the bad earth and the hard rock that giant hunk of rock the size of a bedroom is khandoba's wife turned to stone the crack that runs across is the scar from his broadsword he struck her down with once in a fit of rage scratch a rock and a legend springs 

© Arun Kolatkar