Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of MOTHERSALT (Alice James Books, forthcoming 2025) and ISAKO ISAKO, a California Book Award finalist and winner of the Alice James Award, the Nautilus Gold Award, and a Maine Literary Award. She is also the author of NOTES FROM THE BIRTH YEAR, winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Chapbook Contest.

KUNDIMAN 20TH ANNIVERSARY POETRY PORTFOLIO

Dear Body—

By MIA AYUMI MALHOTRA

The days poured out in a continuous stream, disappearing as though through a sieve.