Laila Haidarali
is a Trinidadian-born historian and writer. Her poetry
is featured in Tok 1: Writing the New Toronto Narrative; Descant;
Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters, Cahoots Magazine
and online in Sentinel Poetry and ditch poetry.
Sunday Frowns is also the title of her first chapbook, forthcoming
by Trainwreck Press.
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©
2008 Laila
Haidarali
sunday frowns
from a child i wore a frown
the small tempestuous fold
marring the sweetness
mother patted
along plaited blackened hair.
orange patches on maxi-skirt red
filigreed the green
kindly laid for rajahs & ranees
& children dark & playful.
in sunday dress the sisterly debate:
which brown girl inserted into the ring
so often then the smile erupted
fracturing the cut
lying too deeply now
between my eyes.
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