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