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

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Grief

sits with us at the table
rides the bus with us
snuggles up in bed
presses on our eyelids
shackles our feet

so we move
as though underwater,
wading towards
the moment
we remove the tube

and wait.