Wireless Connections by Neetu

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Wireless Connections

She is 
content to be
where she is

between earth and sky
sipping coffee at a black table
in a white-walled cafe
reading a book
but not quite in the pages  her eyes wander to where
people are plugged in
to free Wi-Fi on laptops—
their eyes roam, scan the room
focused and unfocused.

She believes there is 
no presence of time
in her absent life—
hours, minutes, seconds are
insignificant
there is neither before, nor
an after,
to now she is indifferent

she smiles at the woman seated
at the next table
the one with headphones—
she too is absent from the present
she too is here but not here

the smile that passes between them
a single, cordless connection.

© Neetu Malik


Some of Neetu’s Books

THE POETIC BOND VI

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THE OCOTILLO REVIEW SUMMER 2018 VOL 2.2

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Author Bio
Author Bio
Born in India, Neetu has lived in Austria, England, and Canada before settling in the Eastern USA in 1994. Neetu’s eclectic work reflects her diverse background as she explores the joy and darkness of the human condition in poems and stories noteworthy for their intensity in brief span. Her poetry is published in journals and Anthologies from Australia, USA, UK, and India. Her poem, “Soaring Flames”, was awarded First-Place by the NY Literary Magazine (2017). She has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2019 for her poem “Sacred Figs” published by Kallisto Gaia Press in their Ocotillo Review in May, 2018.
  • In My Twilight Zone

    Between sunset’s fiery streaks
    slipping into the sea, and
    the rising of the silver moon
    is my twilight zone.

  • The Cobwebs

    I was leaning
    by the window
    standing outside
    looking in—

  • Wanderer

    by the river
    he looks lost
    his face appears ancient
    in rumination
    under the sycamores’
    embracing shade
    thinks he might see
    God

  • Touch

    your breath on my cheek,
    as I hold you close to me,
    silken infancy

  • Seasonal Fruit

    in a brief burst
    of fiery red and gold
    we burned….

THE POETIC BOND VI

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THE POETIC BOND VI

THE POETIC BOND V

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THE POETIC BOND V
THE OCOTILLO REVIEW SUMMER 2018 VOL 2.2

THE POETIC BOND X

Buy now!
THE POETIC BOND X
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Born in India, Neetu has lived in Austria, England, and Canada before settling in the Eastern USA in 1994. Neetu’s eclectic work reflects her diverse background as she explores the joy and darkness of the human condition in poems and stories noteworthy for their intensity in brief span. Her poetry is published in journals and Anthologies from Australia, USA, UK, and India. Her poem, “Soaring Flames”, was awarded First-Place by the NY Literary Magazine (2017). She has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2019 for her poem “Sacred Figs” published by Kallisto Gaia Press in their Ocotillo Review in May, 2018.

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