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Praniti Gulyani

Unsaid

After you write your haiku, you focus on the ellipses. I watch the way they spill over from the nib of your pen. You make them round and full, perfecting the circular orbs. You call these ellipses planets, and speak about all the unknown civilizations that dwell on them. You continue telling me how they are the spaces between shooting stars, pauses between today and tomorrow, between what was, what is, what will be . . .

migratory birds . . .
the sound of the sky
on their wings

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About the Author

Praniti Gulyani is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl from New Delhi, India. A self-described “lover of words,” she dedicates her poetry and prose to her maternal uncle, Mr. Anuj Khanna, who enriched her world-vision and “showed her the light.”