COIMBATORE WATERS I

 

CHENNAI

Evening at Marina Beach, Chennai

 Vandalur

Sand delivery, Kurnool

 Photos from a visit to Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, last month.  Most pictures are of people, and probably only of interest if you know them, but I've a few street scene.

ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF CHENNAI

 

BOY AND FRIEND

SIVATHARINI

 Her shyness moulded her face
To a solemn look
For my first photo.

Teased, her shyness
Could not prevent the escape of her giggles
From fingers over her lips.

She was exhibit A;
Exhibit B, a cancer report; exhibit C,
The newspaper account of her need.

How often - in nine of her twelve years -
Had she shyly sat
While elders and betters talked over her head?

They gave me cake and a biscuit
As we discussed her.  Then shyly
She leaned forward to brush the crumbs from my knee.

9 September 2019

Sivatharini

NEAR LAXMAPUR, TELANGANA