Crossing continents, slinking through borders
              Frequenting temples, challenging tombs,
Escaping to gutted houses
with a fierce feminism and foreign shoes….

                          Books read half-way, then abandoned
                                     Singing on the window-sill…
                                                 Too much coffee, too little sleep –

                                     And all because I cannot have you

Annie Zaidi
Read at Manisha’s, October 9th