Middle-of-the-night Maggi*
Soft warm noodles-comfort food
Has me soothed
And yet not full.
So I am always left feeling
I could've done with more keeling–
Pea flowers and joined palms
Sliding thighs and knotted arms–
When finding it difficult to breathe
We could’ve bloomed, open as gasping seas.
*I try not to think of lead when I am thinking satin
Ankita Anand is a writer-poet-performer based in Delhi, India. Her poems have been chosen to be part of an anthology featuring forty Indian poets below the age of forty, and her