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Morgan’s Essay 005: Mumbai’s Dhobi Ghat


Dhobi Ghat, Mumbai — photo by Bernard Gagnon, accompanying poem "Morgan's Essay 005: Mumbai's Dhobi Ghat"
Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Thoughts drift back three years,
A second visit to India to see life.
A vast field for washing clothes,
Generations never at rest.

The caste system hard to escape,
Heart heavy, I ask the gods:
Is everything predestined?
Is fate in our hands or in heaven?