"was with the hope that there is an acknowledgement of the brown skin, before you realise that the sentence actually stops at skin and starts again at brown earth, which I hoped would also subtly emphasise the connection between skin and earth."

Felt every bit of this intention as I read it. It's a wonderful blossoming movement of brown authors and poets acknowledging their roots and melanin. There are definitely a lot of major 'published' authors out there. But the grassroots movement of people learning to recognise themselves in the works they read/touch/watch has been a bit slow in India.

Especially when a lot of rhetoric uses colour to separate. Thank you <3