Crochet Lace Hankies

Crochet Lace Hankies

Surfing internet for hours and hours

to kill my nocturnal ennui

I stumbled upon those long forgotten

Crochet laced hankies .

Sewn with dainty silken laces,

like the ones my mother made

in lilac, aquamarine and tangerine shades.

She decorated my kerchiefs

With dulcet patterns looped with care

and fixed them to my check pinafore

as she dropped me at the day care.

And she also made hordes of them

to pack them in my trousseau trunk.

As nostalgia washed me over again,

I ordered a dozen online

For my mother with her dwindling eyesight.

- Neha Bansal