A Fond Memory After My Biking Trip
She sits patiently waiting looking at me, a lean lady of the street in Pantai Indah Kapuk. I opened my picnic but she is on the alert and kept her distance even when I took her some rice on my lunch box cover to share it with me. She eats by dainty bits, clean as a lady should. When I offered her something of my coffee milk, she refused, and went away.
Luckily enough we didn’t become good friends I thought. What if she runs with me all the way some 15 km and on top of that, refuse her a home while I have three already.
Then, as I was sitting, I saw her peeping. Oh she is so beautiful, irresistable, enticing, tempting as she peeps through the grating, kept her face out and up for anyone outside to kiss or pluck her. I hadn’t brought my camera but I caught her with my mind’s eye.
She is the beautiful Kembang Sepatu (literally, flower shoe).
April 2011
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