Saviour | Nandita Dutta 

You know the dark
that can drown words?
I come from that world.
the dark is too dense 
for me to reach out,
to pick words that mean things
it is just that dark 
that it won't even let words through 
so that I can tell you what kind it was. 

You saw that dark, didn't you? 
when you were in my womb
Were you the only glimmer?
Were you only a glimmer?

Nandita Dutta is a communications professional, coffee-addict, chronicler of her family’s life in photos and videos. Born in Kolkata, bred in Delhi, now she is firmly on the Mumbai side of Delhi-Bombay arguments. A gadget-nerd, she is a committed gymbro, has a TBR list that cannot be finished in one lifetime, and will extol the virtues of audiobooks to anyone who will listen. Some of her short stories have appeared in reflections.live, HotPot Magazine, Bitter Melon Review, and a memoir-style anthology (Author Magazine – Dear me :: Scribing Positivity: 25 Letters, Infinite Inspiration) available on Amazon. She is currently working on her first nonfiction book, and has another short story coming out in the fall, in an anthology of South Asian writers commissioned by Write Beyond Borders, and one in the inaugural issue of Outland Magazine.