All 3 Uses of
communal
in
Running in the Family
- A communal protest this time, the first of my socialist tendencies.†
p. 84..0 *
- …earth
Sunlight Sunlight
stop for the cool kurumba
scoop the half formed white
into our mouths
remove
tarpaulin walls of the jeep
to receive lowland air
on a bench behind sunlight
the woman the coconuts the knife
WOMEN LIKE YOU
(the communal poem—Sigiri Graffiti, 5th century)
They do not stir
these ladies of the mountain
do not give us
the twitch of eyelids.
The king is dead.
They answer no one
take the hard
rock as lover.
Women like you
make men pour out their…†
p. 92..1
- It is like communal sleep.†
p. 141..4
Definition:
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(communal) related to a group rather than individuals