What did my father say
when I showed him
my first poem
what did the pariah Tamil girl say
whom I thought to be
a thousand-year old goddess
I raped her thinking
it—’the coming together
of a man and a statue.
what did my ailing daughter say
before she died aged eight
in a Nazi-occupied country
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