Pragya Suman

FATHER TAUGHT

Father taught me // to tuck two-finger
of right opened palm, // to solve 5+3=?
I fumbled among two fingers, // and failed

In a night of bone breaking winter

I untucked my fingers // after thirty years
Wiped the cold sweat, // came in stark loose–

Father yells still, but he is no more.

Dr Pragya Suman is a doctor by profession and an award winning author from  India.

Recently she won the Gideon poetry award for her debut book Lost Mother .

Her second poetry book was published recently by Ukiyoto Publishing, Canada.

Dr Pragya Suman is Editor in Chief, Arc Magazine, India.

Her social media account is following

Twitter : @DrPragyaSuman7

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https://www.arcmagazine.co.in/arc-prose-poetry-1

Flights, Issue Five, June 2022