A Small-Sized Memory by Harsimran Kaur

In a red-colored box

A picture of my beloved

Preserved like an ancient pharaoh

Young and beautiful

In a red-colored box

A letter from my beloved

Preserved like the book of kells

acrimonious, ambivalent 

In a red-colored box

A finger of my beloved

Preserved like mulberry pickle

Red and wet

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Harsimran Kaur (b. 2004) is an author of The Best I Can Do Is to Write My Heart Out, I am Perfectly Imperfect, and Clementines on My Poetry Table. She is also the founder of Pastlores, an online club dedicated to literature, and an arts organization called The Creative Zine. She has also been awarded a Gold Award for her entry in the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition 2021 by the Royal Commonwealth Society. When she’s not writing or reading, she can often be seen teaching invisible students. You can know more about her ventures at www.harsimranwritesbooks.com/.