Poetry: Sahana Ahmed

Sahana Ahmed

Picnic

mint, olive, sage, fern

moss, emerald, parakeet

yellow feeling blue

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Hide-and-seek

bird

do not stop singing

i do not enter your tree

to build a nest

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Origami

spring cleaning

a dusty moth

a paper tree

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Bio: Sahana Ahmed is the author of Combat Skirts (2018) and the editor of Amity: peace poems (2022). She is the founder and CEO of Bare Bones, an independent publishing house based in New Delhi, India. For more information, please visit her website at www.sahanaahmed.com.

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Setu, June 2024