In Mandira Pattnaik’s prose poem, the narrator, while on a real and metaphorical walk, trudges through the labyrinthine passages of the mind of an older woman struggling with age-related memory issues.
Mandira’s story describes the different associations of greenery that two young cousins have. For the adolescent, green becomes a colour she grows-up to abhor because it stands for unpleasant past and unrequited love. For the other though, green is synonymous with childhood and an escape like no other.