Night of the Scorpion is a poem by Nissim Ezekiel and Luke Bennett
It tells the story of a time when Nissim was a child and his family lived in Bombay India. One day, his mother was stung by a scorpion, which then retreats behind a sack of rice. The poem describes the attempts by Nissim's father, the local peasants and the holy man to cure her, far away from Western medicine. The conflict between the peasants "buzzing the name of God" and Nissim'...
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