Smitha Sehgal is a legal professional and poet who divides her time between Delhi and Calicut, her beloved seaside home. Her poems are featured in contemporary literary publications such as Usawa Literary Review, Madras Courier, Poetica Review, Arkana, Panoply and elsewhere.

Smitha Sehgal

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Lalgem

Red stringed Autumn
leaves of snaking path
a spider spins a fine mesh of sunlight
you and I, heliotropes
unknotting tassels on butterfly wings
my bones ache at the footsteps of Winter.