<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=411975" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Domestic Shades 1</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1<br>As early from bed I rise<br>So early the electricity dies<br>Accustomed hands paint blind shades<br>Then a lit candle lights the house<br>Unwilling to break a tradition<br>I go on the kolam expedition<br>Custom unlocks the portico<br>With water and quartz I go<br>Dawn is Mahalakshmi's time prime<br>So dark, also stealer's time crime<br>I'm warned to be back inside<br>My hubby is in fear's stride<br>I let him keep shouting<br>Safe then is my feeling<br>I finish haphazardly<br>Cursing the power-failure highly</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 2<br>When she was wide and deep in bulk<br>She came oceanic in force<br>We had overflowing sumps<br>All houses all time<br>Old by age<br>Slow sometimes<br>Slower sometimes<br>The slowest this day<br>Making me wait ear-sharpened<br>For her falling utterance...<br>Not even incontinent this tap<br>Hissing for a wink and then dead<br>Thamiraparani is weak and wormy<br>Meeting us on fourth or fifth day weekly<br>Worming through the pipeline<br>And we, the patient waiters</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Indira+Renganathan">Indira Renganathan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=411975" data-title="Domestic Shades 1 de Indira Renganathan" data-description="1 As early from bed I rise So early the electricity dies Accustomed hands paint blind shades Then a lit candle lights the house Unwilling to break a tradition I go on the kolam expedition Custom unlocks the portico With water and quartz I go Dawn ..."></div> </div> </div>

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