A foreword by Prof. Rowena Hill (Translator)

Please Select a Poem Title from the List White ants If I was a tree Untouchables The educated boys of the south side Before it rains again Cow-dust Life's like that To a rag-and-bone boy Filthy state One straying strand of long brown hair Grandmother and granddaughter The sun and moon as slaves Weeping Buddha Sandals and I Service in the nude The sound that I make		WHITE ANTS The Hindu religion is a big tree. Brahmins are the roots, Kshatriyas the trunk, Vaishya, Sudras and the rest branches and twigs. Not related to the tree, but still obliged to stay here are the white ants, the untouchables.