Picking

प्रदीप

and

Robert

by the emerald

ruin pool

Women in the field,

Pradeep is ten years old

The field is now flat

a roll-roller idle on it

the women work every day,

slowly

picking at growth

the roll-roller doesn't serve much

E. Rasheed, Engineer & Contractor, is absent

a banana grove beyond.

The pool is placid