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The Day we went to the Sea by Tishani Doshi, Won the 2005 British Council-supported All India Poetry Competition  The day we went to the sea mothers in Madras were mining the Marina for missing children. Thatch flew in the sky, prisoners ran free, houses danced like danger in the wind. I saw a woman hold the tattered edge of the world in her hand, look past the temple which was still standing, as she was — miraculously whole in the debris of gaudy South Indian sun. When she moved her other hand across her brow, in a single arcing sweep of grace, it was as if she alone could alter things, bring us to the wordless safety of our beds. 'The Day we went to the Sea' was written in Madras after the tsunami of 2004. |
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