When my father gave me away, he gave me up
to my in-laws, literally. To me, he said, ‘henceforth
that is your family. I walked in, open-eyed.
First I could never gossip, my mother closed her ears.
I could inform deaths and births;’ they are good people ‘he said
and that was it. I worked at these relationships.
Rehearsing my speech, until it became my own.
Daddy had a way of dissociating himself, marking the Gita
'Affection through dissociation,' he bemused.
When he died I found it in his diary, he had written
he had made me self-sufficient and nameworthy.
When my relatives had told me the story of Dhatchayani
I had stood firm as wood, made my own mythology.
The scent and smell of poetry helped.
Father said,'Your New Family'.
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Re: Father said,'Your New Family'.
Hard but beautiful. My 2nd nom this month
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Re: Father said,'Your New Family'.
Well done. I like the tone throughout