Grief, sanitized

Grief, sanitized

Today I see you, As a child when you took care of me As a daughter grown up, who often decided for you As a daughter who moved away. Today I see you Decked in your best clothes that I chose over the phone. I did not bathe you, or cried as I pulled the shirt or sari...
Love and forgetting

Love and forgetting

  I cradled you when you slept I soothed you  when you wept I fed you  when you craved  food  for thought as all. Now it is your turn feed me, soothe me, love me. For I am the one who loved you once who loves you still. I may not ...
Writing in the time of Corona

Writing in the time of Corona

As I talk about writing in the time of Corona, you, the reader, please do not think of Marquez and his celebrated novel! No, this is neither earth-shattering nor profound, just bits and pieces of self-deprecatory humor, laced with good, old-fashioned, maudlin...