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Vandana Parashar

Vandana Parashar is a postgraduate in Microbiology, an educator and a haiku poet. Her haiku, senryu and tanka have been published in many national and international journals of repute and has won her many prizes and accolades. Her haiku was also shortlisted for the prestigious Touchstone Award 2020 She is an associate editor of haikuKATHA and one of the editors of Poetry Pea and #FemkuMag. Her debut e-chapbook, I Am, was published by Title IX Press (now Moth Orchid Press) in 2019 and her second chapbook, Alone, I Am Not, was published by Velvet Dusk Publishing in April 2022.

Alone, I am not

dark-skinnedwill the stars mistakeme for night first datepouring tea, he asksmy cup size consentthe distance between the hemand my knee burqaand yetcatcalls an orchidtrapped in a paperweightchild bride clean sheetshe wants meto talk dirty oversewingthe ripped lotusdaddy stitch grafted roseslowly becoming whatthey
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Blind Spot

As a child, I always wanted to be invisible. It seemed like such a fun thought. Now, after all these years… the blank stares, the silence at the dining table, the lack of response… have I finally become invisible? cracks on ice
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Anatomy of a Sigh

standing underthe showerwatching the water flow…what’s it about betrayalthat excites us so striking Plutoout from the planetsnot realisingwhen I stopped beingpart of your universe deadheading rosesin one fell swoopafter our fighthe sends mea shrink’s number wonderingwhether to lie yet againabout my bruises…I
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