Basket of Burdens

Poetry by Emisen Jamir from the Beginnings issue

I carry ticking minutes
in my bamboo basket.
A hundred years I age
under the weight of laws
written in the wind, while
you walk ahead, your backs
proudly protected by shawls,
decorated with heads you never hunted.

Emisen Jamir

Emisen Jamir is a research scholar in the Department of English, Nagaland University. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Kohima College, Kohima. Her short-story, “Deliberate Delirium” was published in Raconteurs from the Hills, an anthology of short-stories. Whenever she is not busy devouring books, she writes short-stories and poems.