Wednesday, May 23, 2012

at long last


she runs, slippers in one hand, the sari hitched up to her knees
stops at the door, and laughing, on the doormat wipes her feet

bunches of coconuts glisten and the serrated leaves all drip and nod
the trunks are all half wet, longitudinally, from the bottom to the top

with cracks of lightning in the ponderous grey clouds the rains have finally arrived
and though she’d been waiting with bated breath still took her by surprise


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