Emer Davis

New Delhi, India

 

Emer Davis was born in Ireland and is currently living in India.  She experienced the lockdown in New Delhi, except for one month during the summer when she was in Ireland, before returning to India for work.  She previously lived in London and Abu Dhabi.  Several of her poems have been published in anthologies, journals and online in Ireland, UK, USA and UAE.  She was runner up in the Poetry Ireland Trocaire poetry competition in 2018.  Her poems can be found on her website Bunnacurrypoet.org.  

 

Poem written 17th August 2020

 

Lemongrass and Ginger Tea

 

Six feet apart

I can still smell

your infused scent

wafting in the air

as we lingered

in the silence

of empty gazes

and masked faces.

 

Steam blurring

the moments we had together

before it was time to go

time to say goodbye

time to return without you

to a lockdown in another country

where I sit alone

by my window

sipping tea

and remember

the brief moment

we shared this summer.