Vasco
6 am or thereabouts and blue dislodges itself
from black
6 am or thereabouts and blue dislodges itself
from black
dear dairy cow
A commotion at the lake
in the center of our cul-de-sac
In the house no one dreams of contradicting the father
Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s latest book Mothersalt (Alice James Books, 2025) explores the tenderness and strangeness of childbirth, pregnancy, and early motherhood as well as what it means to be “that …
“Naming grief might risk forsaking it, but naming can also be an invocation. I write about my mother and so here she is, brightening the pain I thought I put to bed.”—Kelly Rose Hoffer
“The predicament becomes living in “this present tense that refuses no one” while acknowledging that writing from life, however fast, is writing the past.”
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