PRESENTS FROM MY AUNTS IN PAKISTAN

By Asha Patel

Half- English

She is torn in between the two

which suggests Pain and Separation

SALWAR KAMEEZ PEACOCK BLUE

Orange split open

Apple Green Sari

These are appeal to taste

Glass Bangles Snapped, Drew Blood

The reader felt Discomfort toward were Pakistan culture she may also feel rejection.

FASHIONED CHANGE

W h e n t h e r e a d e r fi r s t c a m e h e r t o n o w

SOME TIMES I SAW LAHORE

There were beggars, sweeper girls

Prickly heat has me screaming on the way

I ended up in a cot

Suggest that she just came from a really hot countries as she is on her way to England

I pictured myself at Shalimar Gardens

She feels as if she is longing and desiring to go. As she feels like a outsider

THERE WAS CONFLICT , A FRACTURED LAND

This suggests the war in India is like her culture which is DIVIDED