They severed your umbilical cord, rushing you from me, both holding our breaths until they intubated you. Days until I heard your feeble cry, weeks before I felt your gentle suckling, months before your artificial cords detached and I took you home. A whole year before I could finally exhale.
Nina Miller is an Indian-American physician, fencer, and creative. Her work can be found in Cutbow Quarterly, Bright Flash Literary Review, Five South, Roi Fainéant, Five Minutes and more. Find Nina on Twitter at @NinaMD1 or www.ninamillerwrites.com.
This is so good.
Thank you!!
Well written.
Thank you, Edythe!
This is so sweet…I actually took a deep breath at the end 🧡
Thank you, Kelsey!! 😊
I love this, Nina! Congrats
Thank you, Kelli!
This is really good, love it! :)
Thank you, Maria!
This is breathtaking. Beautiful.
Thank you, Miranda!