presents from my aunts in pakistan
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Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan
Peacock Blue
Candy stripped
bangles
Apple Green
Candy stripped bangles
She describes these bangles as beautiful and colourful in the beginning of the poem but then . . . . . . .
MY AUNTS CHOSE AN
APPLE GREEN SARI
GLISTENING ORANGE SPLIT OPEN
Peacock Blue
. . . . She uses the phrase “Snapped, drew blood” This suggests that when she tried the bangles on then they snapped which may refer to rejection because when she tried them on they snapped.
I was Alien in the sitting room.
Staring through fretwork
THE END
BY AMEER JAMAL