Prerna Bakshi

Childhood Games

I used to like playing games
with little toy guns until
one day, while the elders talked
downstairs, he snuck me into
his room…..
My interest in toys ended
that day and with it ended
my childhood, though not
my interest in guns.  That grew.

Prerna Bakshi is a sociolinguist, writer and scholar of Indian origin, currently based in Macao. Her poetry has been published, or is forthcoming, in Linden Avenue Literary Journal, Indiana Voice Journal, Red Fez, Muse India, Postcolonial Text, Theory in Action, Hysteria, Misfit magazine, Grey Sparrow Journal, Asahi Shimbun (Japanese Daily Newspaper), Your One Phone Call | Poetry with a knife edge!, Bottle rockets, Kabul Press, Silver Birch Press, Wilderness House Literary Review, A Quiet Courage, Praxis magazine, Poetry Pacific, Whirlwind Magazine, South Asian Ensemble: A Canadian Quarterly of Literature, Arts and Culture and elsewhere. She tweets at: @bprerna