His surprise at how birds stopped at the threshold Of their houses. Never Herded through open windows to another life, never Building on this lampshade Would be tole...

The black train pulls in at the platform, Hissing into silence like hot steel in water. Tell the porters not to be so precipitate: ...

vigilantly guarding rice fields, later, collecting cow dung, rounding up cows, you munched dry rotis, beat your daughter-in-law. A farmer never leaves his land, they said, ...