I Miss your Mother by Nidhi (India)

​A fierce black cat,
Outside your house
invoking a doomy omen.
I stop at the intersection of
Four directions-
Heart/Mind/Soul & the body
Each standing at the crossroads,
Leading nobody to nowhere.
Where am I?
Perhaps there, where-
Love slips from one wall to another
Falling onto her shoulders, sugar by sugar
Salt by salt…sprinkling death
Speaking life
Honey,
I miss your Mother.

Nidhi, who grew up in India, focuses on issues of emotional and physical trauma in her poetry. She strongly believes that poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder; a tool that keeps her going in life and is driven by the intense physical and emotional trauma she has encountered through her medical condition. Nidhi’s writings have been featured by the Laurel Review, Inscape Journal, Packingtown Review, Altadena Poetry Review, Yugen Quest Review, and many more.