Bio
Meenakshi loves reading and writing poetry, drawing inspiration from the everyday. Her works often touch on nature and family. An educator by profession, she loves talking to young people about stories. In addition to the Shot Glass Journal, she has been published both online and in print, including in The Tiger Moth Review, Voices and Verse Poetry Magazine (Hong Kong), Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Mahagony Journal and the poetry anthology, Little Things, 2nd Edition, amongst others.
Meenakshi Palaniappan
i shall write of tiny things
like the conch that fits in my palm
into which the ocean leaps
like the flame at the end of a match
before it swallows a forest
like the pollen of a sunflower
that dusts a field into bloom
like the snowflake at the tip of a branch
that melts into the river
like this teardrop in the corner of my eye
that holds the weight of your passing