Mona Bedi

. . . and it goes on

Genetics are strong. They can change you into someone else. You never know when your son becomes like your husband and you become an exact copy of your mother.

family reunion—
I call my aunt
by another name
she too mistakes me
for my mother

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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.

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