Things That A Bra Contains 

By Kanupriya Dhingra

Mobile phones, candies,
shopping lists, stretch marks,
your gaze, cash and coins,
cuss words and their meanings,
and, at times, also,
a pair of breasts —
Things that a bra contains

Because there were never
enough pockets
in our bonnets and blouses.
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Kanupriya Dhingra is a research scholar at the Department of English, University of Delhi. She writes and translates in English, Hindi and Punjabi. Her works have been published in The Sunflower Collective, Aainanagar, Antiserious, Guftugu, Indian Culture Forum among others. She has also contributed two essays to The Caravan.