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    An unknown girl hennas the narrator's hand in an evening bazaar in India. The girl steadies the narrator's hand on her knee as she squeezes the henna through a nozzle, icing her hand with the brown lines. As a peacock spreads its colorful lines across the narrator's palm, colors from the street float up in balloons. The narrator has discovered new brown veins and feels she is clinging to the firm peacock lines of henna like people clinging to the sides of a train. Though the henna will fade within a week, the narrator will longingly lean across the country with outstretched hands when India reappears, longing to reconnect with

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    An unknown girl hennas the narrator's hand in an evening bazaar in India. The girl steadies the narrator's hand on her knee as she squeezes the henna through a nozzle, icing her hand with the brown lines. As a peacock spreads its colorful lines across the narrator's palm, colors from the street float up in balloons. The narrator has discovered new brown veins and feels she is clinging to the firm peacock lines of henna like people clinging to the sides of a train. Though the henna will fade within a week, the narrator will longingly lean across the country with outstretched hands when India reappears, longing to reconnect with

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    An unknown girl hennas the narrator's hand in an evening bazaar in India. The girl steadies the narrator's hand on her knee as she squeezes the henna through a nozzle, icing her hand with the brown lines. As a peacock spreads its colorful lines across the narrator's palm, colors from the street float up in balloons. The narrator has discovered new brown veins and feels she is clinging to the firm peacock lines of henna like people clinging to the sides of a train. Though the henna will fade within a week, the narrator will longingly lean across the country with outstretched hands when India reappears, longing to reconnect with

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    An unknown girl hennas the narrator's hand in an evening bazaar in India. The girl steadies the narrator's hand on her knee as she squeezes the henna through a nozzle, icing her hand with the brown lines. As a peacock spreads its colorful lines across the narrator's palm, colors from the street float up in balloons. The narrator has discovered new brown veins and feels she is clinging to the firm peacock lines of henna like people clinging to the sides of a train. Though the henna will fade within a week, the narrator will longingly lean across the country with outstretched hands when India reappears, longing to reconnect with

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    An Unknown Girl

    In the evening bazaar


    studded with neon
    an unknown girl Comment [U1]: These are repeated 3 times – Divide poem into 3 three
    is hennaing my hand sections:
    -Girl + Henna process
    She squeezes a wet brown line -India + Where she is
    from a nozzle. -How she wants to stay
    She is icing my hand,
    Short lines (spontaneous) + No stanzas
    which she steadies with hers -Different = Non western
    on her satin-peach knee. -Short time in India
    In the evening bazaar -Doesn’t want to end = No stanzas
    for a few rupees It is also a cycle because first words similar to last words – coming and
    an unknown girl going, process will happen again and again
    is hennaing my hand. Comment [U2]: Hennaing = trying to adopt Indian culture but it is only
    As a little air catches temporary, like the henna it won’t last
    my shadow-stitched kameez2 Comment [U3]: Enjambment
    a peacock spreads its lines -Everything is so fast – her time in India is running through her hands
    across my palm. -So full of energy, it runs over the lines
    Colours leave the street Comment [U4]: “Specifically India” Exotic – represents India, beautiful
    float up in balloons. needs to be explored, opened up, lively and colorful
    Dummies in shop-fronts Comment [U5]: Possibly Indians influenced by the west, or Western
    tilt and stare tourists who look out of place, or mannequins modeling Western clothes
    which look awkward and don’t belong there
    with their Western perms.
    Banners for Miss India 1993, Comment [U6]: -Artificial
    -Fake = ‘Miss World’ one of the worst examples of western influences
    for curtain cloth -Out of place, West is intruding India
    and sofa cloth
    canopy me. Comment [U7]: All the things surrounding her represents India. The word
    I have new brown veins. “Canopy” suggests how she feels India is protecting her
    In the evening bazaar Comment [U8]: 1 sentence – short, definite and imply sense of pride
    very deftly -Discovered new things as if India is a part of her, in her ‘vein’
    -New life in India
    an unknown girl
    is hennaing my hand. Comment [U9]: Repetition of “an unknown girl” to emphasize the fact that
    she is mysterious like India, it also the ‘unknown’ side of the persona
    I am clinging
    Comment [U10]: Feeling of desperation to hold on
    to these firm peacock lines -wants to find out more
    like people who cling -can’t let go
    to the sides of a train.
    Now the furious streets Comment [U11]: Simile compared to the people who cling to the train
    are hushed. sides, those people usually hold on very tightly because if they let go they
    would die
    I’ll scrape off
    the dry brown lines
    before I sleep,
    reveal soft as a snail trail Comment [U12]: Digging Deeper into “India”
    the amber bird beneath. -Scraping pass the surface
    It will fade in a week. Comment [U13]: Sibilance = soft, gentle, smooth, time not going fast
    When India appears and reappears Comment [U14]: Although she is desperate to hold on to the memories
    I’ll lean across a country about India, it will still fade because henna suggests that it’s temporary, she
    will not have enough of it
    with my hands outstretched
    -Tone = Regret
    longing for the unknown girl
    Comment [U15]: Begging, Desperate to stay
    in the neon bazaar.

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