Paresh Tiwari

Sunday morning, a mildly fragrant breeze breaks the stillness of the room. The night, spent in fitful snatches of sleep, gives way to the characteristic emptiness of a new house. Folding the comforter away on the makeshift bed, I pull a plastic chair to the large glass window overlooking a neem tree. As the sky begins to lighten, the foliage on the tree, barely discernible a few moments ago, explodes into parakeets. As I steep a tea-bag in lukewarm water, a weak sun spills over shingled rooftops. Somewhere a clock-tower strikes seven. browning leaf was it just me who embraced the fall?

Paresh Tiwari: An electrical engineer by profession, a creative writer, and illustrator by choice, Paresh Tiwari, grew up in the labyrinthine lanes of Lucknow. He took to Japanese literary short forms in the winter of 2012. Since then his haiku, haibun, tanka, haiga, free-form poems and flash fiction pieces have been published in various journals, anthologies and books. His first collection of haiku and haibun ‘An inch of sky’ was published by 20 Notebooks Press and is available online.