Mona Bedi
Potpourri
She looks out of her bedroom window. Winter is around the corner. Patches of bare land peek out of the sparse grass in the lawn. The birdfeeder is full of dry leaves.
She glances at her reflection in the gilded mirror on the wall. The hair has thinned. Her features have become coarse. New wrinkles have formed around her mouth.
Just then her husband of 36 years walks in. “You look pretty today,” he tells her. ”As you look handsome, my love,” she replies.
shifting shadows
I try hard to let go
of my insecurities
he still holds close to his heart
a faded picture from our youth
About the Author
Mona Bedi is a medical doctor in Delhi, India. She has published two books of poetry, they you and me and dancing moonlight, and her haiku and senryu have been published in Failed Haiku, Haiku in Action, The Haiku Dialogue, cold moon journal, tsuri-doro, and many others. She lives with her husband, two children, and a dog.