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The buffalo is in camouflage, wearing
green vegetation across its back.
o
The waiter brings food piled high,
pomfret in Goan spices,
blue and yellow lobster, cream-filled,
and a delicacy of prawns.
Over food we talk of home,
of friendships under duress.
Let’s gather all our troubles and
drown them in a gunny sack.
o
Gunny sack, says Sakhi
and I think of my father’s
khaki war paraphernalia.
The Tiger Moth
with its spare engine,
the silk maps of the
New Guinea Highlands,
the arsenic pill, just in case,