I wonder if I have ever asked anyone to worship my mother. Also I don’t remember anyone asking me to worship their mother. I have mine and they have theirs.

daybreak…
the damaged idol
on the roundabout

Aparna Pathak is a freelance writer from India. Her work appears in Poetry Life and Times, Reflections, Negative Suck, Poetry24, Rolling Thunder Press, Blue Cygnus, Earthen Lamp Journal, Lost Tower Publications, Silver Birch Press, The Heron’s Nest, Shot Glass Journal, and elsewhere. She also writes Japanese forms of poetry. Some of her achievements include: “Haiku Master of the Month” (April 2016 and November 2016) by NHK World TV program Haiku Masters; commended haiku, IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award (2016); 3rd place, UHTS Samurai Haibun Contest (2016); being shortlisted in the Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Awards for individual poems in 2016. She recently won 1st…