Linus Suryadi AG (1951-1999), who died tragically at the age of 48, was a promising poet and prose writer. He belonged to a literary generation which made Indonesian regional settings the focus of its writing.

Dew

Linus Suryadi AG

Lake Bratan, Bali

Dew adorns the morning world

Dew sets our senses shivering

Dewdrops of thought and feeling

The layer of dew upon the land

simmers beneath the silent sun

Dewdrops drip like falling tears

Dewdrops, the manifold plans of distant men

Oh, how the heat and the dew of this world

become the body's steam and drops of sweat

Translated by John H McGlynn

*Third World Resurgence No. 314/315, October/November 2016, p 64