Nancy
this is very evocative. I just wondered about varying line lengths to give a
lazier effect
BW
Christine
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From: Nancy Gandhi
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Sent: 11/11/02 07:55
Subject: Sub: Summer Afternoon
Okay, here goes:
Nancy
Summer Afternoon
Flies land and take off from my knee,
run aground and sweating
in a bright gul mohur's shade.
It's too hot to swat them,
too hot to think Tamil,
talk vegetables with the cook,
understand the maid's tale
of disaster on the roof.
Our mouths open and shut.
Decisions must be made.
I'm dull as the red-jowled chameleon
doing pushups on a branch.
The gardener's broom swishes
underneath a neighbour's singing lesson:
An exactly quavered line repeated
in a fainter, younger voice.
Each phrase ends on a higher note
like the slowly seeping day,
just one more step, or maybe two, away
from resolution.
Nancy Gandhi
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