Page 5 - Reflectoem Magazine Issue 02

Saturday

I C E W O M E N

Moumita Alam from Bengal,
India a known poet whose book
of poems "The Musings of the
Dark" has been published
recently.

M O U M I T A A L A M

I sniff my mother
to feel the warmth of home
a home that I am searching for
long
icicles enter my nose
and run through my vein
I become cold like dead body
I frantically run my hands
through my ice cold body
and again through my mother's
body
I shudder at the same coldness
of my mother's armpit
I ask my mother
where her home is
she looks at me with her
snowballed eyes
she looks clueless
as I am
when being asked
the same question
she runs towards the gas oven
to bring hot cup of tea
for my father
the question melts and vanishes
in the cup
my father sups the warmth.