Ranu Uniyal is Professor of English at Lucknow University. Her poetry has appeared in Cha An Asian Literary Journal, Asia Literary Review (HongKong), Mascara Literary Review (Australia), Jaggery, Medulla Review, Sketch Book, among other places She has published three poetry collections: Across the Divide (2006), December Poems (2012) and the most recent The Day We Went Strawberry Picking in Scarborough (2018).
GRANDFATHER
You remember more of what is no more.
Past steps into your bedroom and your grandson
becomes your newly born. You love to address
him as...