fall drive
through the woodlands
a flock of juncos
glide across the sky
another wordless goodbye
half-hearted apology
the wild rye quivers
with white-tailed deer
their antlers catching the eye
of the hunter’s moon
cider tasting
the sommelier points out
a complex note
a stranger asks me why
i stopped dyeing my hair
all through the afternoon
mending my late father’s
shirts my mother claims
a red fox appears each
time she sews
Enajori
another assamese word
i learn after years of you
and I filling the sunday crossword
with our neologisms
Enajori: In Assamese it means the bonds of both love and friendship that exist
between people.
Jahnavi Gogoi
Jahnavi Gogoi is a Canadian freelance writer and poet. Her work has found homes in journals across the world. Her most recent work has been featured in FemkuMag, Haikuniverse, Cold Moon Journal, Poetry Pea, Shadow Pond Journal, FemAsia Magazine etc. She enjoys writing Japanese forms of poetry especially Haiku and Tanka.