Hamsa

[Allen W Thrasher]

When my mother and aunt stayed with me in Pune for a week back in 1983, they remarked about my Tamil maid, a woman of full figure approaching middle age, "She walks like she were Queen Mary."  I think the poets with their talk of geese and elephants were referring to something of the sort.

Allen



Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D., Senior Reference Librarian
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