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Poetry: Letter From A Former Cook

Poetry: Letter From A Former Cook

Kavita Ezekiel Mendonca was an instructor of english, french and spanish before debuting as a poet in 1989

pOLymORpHic hUMansCApE by Nandita Kumar
pOLymORpHic hUMansCApE by Nandita Kumar Credit Engineer: Sajal Nagwansh

Dear Madam,

You saw my grief when my wife
was attacked and killed by a wild boar
Deep in the forest where she had gone
to collect wood for the home fire
to feed the children.
How else to light the sigdi*
Without wood or coal?

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