Their Daughters Paracetamol legends I know
For rising fevers, as pain-relievers: Of my people - father's father's mother's Mother, dark lush hair caressing her ankles Sometimes, sweeping earth, deep-honey skin, Amber eyes - not beauty alone they say - she Married a man who murdered thirteen men and one Lonely summer afternoon her rice-white teeth tore Through layers of khaki, and golden white skin to spill The bloodied guts of a British soldier who tried to colonize her. Of my land - uniform blue open skies, Mad-artist palettes of green lands and lily-filled lakes that Mirror all - not peace or tranquil alone, he shudders - some Young woman near my father's home, with a drunken husband Who never changed; she bore his beatings everyday until on one Stormy night, in fury, she killed him by stomping his seed bags. We: their daughters. We: the daughters of their soil. We, mostly, write. By Meena Kandasamy QLRS Vol. 4 No. 3 Apr 2005_____
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