Gauri Dixit 

Afternoon

The old lady was pushing a large shopping cart, stopping every once in a while to pick up something. The cart was full to the brim and she seemed tired. Yet she pushed on with purpose as if she knew where she was going. 

She headed toward the shoe section and found a place to sit with a few pairs of shoes to try. She spent some time trying on shoes, chatting with the salesperson and just sitting.

After an hour or so, she made her way toward the exit, leaving her trolley in the shoe section.

old basketball gear
strewn across the lawn
wouldn’t it would be lovely
if one could 
mow away memories 

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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.