Author: Sunder and Sonati

<strong>The Pangolin's Sneeze: </strong><i>A Lockdown Diary</i>
Chiaroscuro, Issue 13 – June 2020

The Pangolin's Sneeze: A Lockdown Diary

We (Sunder and Sonati) have spent much of the last twenty years in growing trees and our children, here in Thekambattu. No time for anything much else than housework, land work, the kids and visitors. Now, with the boys grown up, and the trees to some extent, there was time for poetry. The poetry started as a response to the events in Kashmir. (How does one respond? has been a recurring theme in our lives). The poems more or less wrote themselves, and this continued with the coronapoems. I (Sunder) write the poems and Sonati edits them to tone down the rants or to suggest a more elegant point of view. Hope that this selection makes you pause, think, enjoy the poetry and gets you to write some poems of your own. The world needs more poets.   March 24th Stay at Home If y...