Mumbai, 2008
Women squatting
Over bowls and buckets
Washing clothes
Washing dishes
Washing children
Squatting, knees ajar
Back towards me
Busy at the day's routine
A child just standing
Only in his dirty shirt
and curly black hair
Playing with nothing
But a brick wall.
His older brother tiptoeing at the dumpster
Peeking to find anything
Anything at all to sell
So they could eat
Something, something, this day.
About Me
- Wendy Bartlett
- WENDY BARTLETT lived in England from age thirteen to twenty-six; then settled in Berkeley, California. Her B.A. is in art history, and she taught school for several years. She started writing novels in 1999, although she has written all her life. The first chapter of her fourth novel, Cellini's Revenge, previously known as The Mystery of the Silver Bowls, won a writing prize at the San Francisco Writers Conference in 2007. Wendy first published her novel, Broad Reach, with the iUniverse prize. Wendy is an artist, songwriter, singer and world traveler. She is presently working on a travel book and her memoirs and is actively searching for an agent to represent her. Her daughter, Elizabeth Stark, is a published author.
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