cold fire

After some mulling over

I finally decided

The only reason I like winter

Is because I like how your nose

goes cold at the tip and

your frozen  fingers tantalisingly

invite mine.

Your cold warming my insides.

About Meenakshi Srihari

Meenakshi Srihari teaches English at NIT, Andhra Pradesh in India. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Hyderabad in 2022. Her doctoral dissertation focused on auto/biographical representations of cancer across media, seeking to demonstrate how the illness narrative juxtaposes personal, political and theoretical strands to form an assemblage. Her research interests include graphic medicine and transmedial storyworlds. She is also a Project Assistant with the Indian Writing in English Online project and the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies at the Department of English, the University of Hyderabad.

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