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

deepening with each step…

home is now

knocked doors

kept closed

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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.