Sunday 9 June 2019

On pavements you may encounter...

… A jutting-up paving slab
a broken drain cover
a pile of bricks
Some wee kids playing while their parents build a patch of wall beside the road

A guy or a family tying together reeds for brushes
A shoe-seller
A shoe shiner
An alteration tailor with his table and hand-turned machine

Multiple ice-cream stalls
A coconut seller - for the juice
A fruit seller - bananas, pomegranate, grapes
A fresh juice seller - carrots etc.
A tree or three
Some weeds and rubble
Some sleeping or feeding dogs and puppies
A cow or collection of cows and their dung.

                                  (Delhi February 2018)