Strange Sightings in Argentina

Every morning

on the pampa highways

there were

dead

brown

owls

.

.

.

-- V. S. Naipaul, “Argentina and the Ghost of Eva Perón” (1991), 

  in  The Writer and the World (2002), p. 386

Mauritian Monostichs

Bad Infinity

sugar cane  and    sugar cane,    

ending in the sea .  .  .

-- V. S. Naipaul,  The Writer and the World (2002), p. 108

Bad Light

A rainy Sunday afternoon,

overcast  yet full of glare,

and sticky  between the showers

-- V. S. Naipaul,  The Writer and the World (2002), p. 114