Memories

Someone I have seen In frocks and skirts In pavadai-sokka In pavadai-davani I met yesterday In a sari We measure out our lives In clothes-changes But ageing is relative, too After all After the

Smells are evocative The smell of khichdi cooking Evokes in me This childhood memory: I go to school In the pouring rain Raincoated and gumbooted Arrive on time To be met with The announcement Of a