Gauri Dixit

Circles of Smoke

I keep running romantic stories in my head, hoping that they will seep into the folds of my brain to become memories. And then, one day I might tell our grandchildren about those nights that we spent on the terrace with our backs leaning on the full moon.

nothing remains
but for a moment
a blue butterfly
           balancing
on a soap bubble

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About the Author

Gauri Dixit is a software professional living in Pune India. She has published her free verse, haiku, haibun, tanka, and tanka prose in Spillwords, Stanzaic Stylings, Oddball Magazine, Glomag, Narrowroad magazine, haikuKATHA, Asahi Haikuist Network, and Under the Basho. She loves to travel and click pictures.