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From ULR
Issue 8 – Kindness
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A hunger-inflated child, a mother's eyes screaming justice from the poem's inescapable, haunting, desperate page.
February 10, 2026
Walking into my poem
she sat like a metaphor
on hunger, her child slung
on her shoulders,
nothing to cover an inflated stomach.
Whenever I saw that page,
on which this desolate poem lived,
this woman’s eyes screamed at me,
words buzzed around her face
like black flies that she carelessly waved away,
as I tried to flee in panic.
But a poem is no car.
There are no windows I can roll up
to evict her from my world
and so she kept sitting in my poem
asking for justice.
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Leena Malhotra
Leena Malhotra is based in Delhi, India. She likes to explore experiences of contemporary India, and write on systemic forms of oppression and various social issues. She is a poet, a film writer and a film direct. She has two books of poetry and is presently directing a film titled ‘An Afternoon ‘.