... it is, but refers to the word as 'it'. Ms. Dharker asks the reader to imagine it dripping slowly into a cup. When the "municipal pipe" (the main pipe supplying a town) bursts, it is seen as unexpected good luck (a "sudden rush of fortune"), and everyone rushes to help themselves. But the end of the poem reminds us of the sun, which causes skin to crack "like a pod" - today's blessing is tomorrow's drought. The poet celebrates the joyous sense with which the people, especially the children, come to life when there is, for once, more than "enough water". In night of a scorpion, it talks about the poison of the scorpion, that is even seen as making the poet's mother better through her suffering: "May the poison purify your flesh/of desire and the spirit of ambition/they said". The poet's father normally does not share such superstitions (he ...

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