Protect me, Mom,
From your naked head.
Maybe it's soft from all the years it never saw sunlight.
A baby mouse, hairless and strange, fragile,
Snuggled warm in its nest.
Or maybe it wears the lines of memories
Shared with the late hair.
This hair has stayed with you since you were 16,
Getting drunk and climbing on the roof of your mom's house.
Setting fires to that barn.
It smacked against your sides when you ran in the park with your first love.
He kissed you and trekked it with his hands.
This hair that I have never in my 22 years of life seen bound or bundled in any way.
Your mom wanted a boy and until you turned 16
She butchered your hair above your ears
Please keep your hat on.
Hair long, brown, reflecting red and gold where the light hits.
The pink hat- curved with a bill- a fisher woman's hat,
Protecting me from fully knowing
What isn't underneath.
I'd give you mine, although its not as nice.
Compiled of thin, dirty weeds dangling in a lazy stupor,
But it's mine, a product of you.
You could wear it as a new hair style.
Maybe it won't feel as strange
As a wig.
Won't poke you, itch your scalp.
Maybe it will feel familiar,
A part of you that they can never take away.
Saving the Tigers from extinction It was a hurriedly organized citizen’s meeting at Guwahati Press Club, where serious concerns were expressed at the increasing trend of poaching and killing of wildlife in various parts of Assam.
The EIP factor - what you should learn from it When we grow older, or get older for the sake of the argument, we tend to start seeing the world only from one side. We tend to believe, no, not believe but know, how things are done. If you are smart, you understand that it shouldn't be that way, you understand this is wrong.
Whether we want to admit it or not, even now, in year 2012, there are still big gender biases in some fields of life. While it's generally understandable that men should do more heavy lifting than women and knitting fits a bit better for the women (even though I am aware even here there are many people who want to disagree), art is one of those things where our gender really should not play any significant role at all. And within the past decade things have started to change even on this front and even on the more conservative arenas such as Bukowskis - the top Nordic auction house.
