A Plate of Pandemic
Creativity in Times of Crisis
Tara Menon, a poet, short story writer, and essayist, has had more than seventy poems published in magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. Some of her recent poems have been published in “Cider Press Review,” “Last Leaves Magazine,” “The New Verse News,” and “The Orchards Poetry Journal.”
We sit with solemn faces in front of the peaked, three-tiered cupboard that houses framed pictures and brass statuettes of goddesses and gods, and we start praying at the stroke of the hour, not wavering until sixty minutes are over. My mother, almost a nonagenarian, dips her right fingers into a silver bowl in synchrony […]