The woman, breaking bricks and sitting on a sidewalk,
wears a red sari as she breaks the bricks, under the burning sun, breaks the bricks,
the bronze coloured woman breaks the bricks.
Twenty-one? But she has seven children back home, looks forty up,
and all day for ten taka, not enough to buy food for one, let alone seven,
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How to watch a woman? 'The Woman Breaking Bricks' gives the best answer. Wonderful poem.
The woman, breaking bricks and sitting on a sidewalk, wears a red sari as she breaks the bricks, under the burning sun, breaks the bricks, the bronze coloured woman breaks the bricks. Twenty-one? But she has seven children back home, looks forty up, writing with such intensity thinking of the vows of the poor. tony