My sleep
I’ve learnt the ABC of insomnia by heart
And developed my grammar of it
Chasing stars by night and playing hide and seek with the moon
My sleep was pissed off by counting sheep
So, she walked out and started admiring them
They exchanged stories and chatted with my sleep
Some stories were filled with future plans to gaze for
Greener pastures, some of past regrets, some of
Present pain,
my sleep, an ardent listener gingerly narrated to me
All of them throughout the night
I woke up with bleary eyes.
Pulkita Anand has authored two children’s e-books, her eco-poetry collection is we were not born to be erased. Her creative works have been published in: Shortstory Kids, Twist and Twain, Winc Magazine ( Stanza Cannon, Superpresent, Muse,Madwomen in the Attic, Poetica#1 NCTE, The Uglywriters, Impspired redsoethorns Journal Kritya, The Amazine, Carmina Magazine, Origami Press, Asiatic, Inanna Publication, Bronze Bird Books, New Verse News, Hakara Journal, Madras Courier, Green Verse: An anthology of poems for our planet (Saraband Publication), Comparative Women, Borderless journal, Convergence anthology (selected), The sunlight Press (selected), MAI and elsewhere.
