A minimalist poem by Salil Chaturvedi is superimposed over a misty landscape with faint silhouettes of palm trees and a fog-covered field. The poem describes the slow engulfing of a neighborhood by fog, erasing familiar structures until only the narrator remains—paradoxically erased yet revealed.

Fog

 

 

Salil Chaturvedi’s short fiction and poetry has been published in various online journals. His published collections, In the Sanctuary of a Poem, Love and Longing in the Anthropocene, and A Little Knowing are available on Amazon. He lives in Goa, India.