Gift to my future child

by Suparna Hande

mine onto you

my own mother’s gift:

a tradition to lose

a pretty sparrow’s coo

noose untight

gubbachi, gubbachi 1 flies away

so it unfurls in a haze

no way to recapture it

1 Sparrow

Suparna Hande is a born-and-raised Michigander. She got her Bachelor’s at the University of Michigan and is a current MFA candidate at Northern Michigan University. She is a recipient of the Cora Duncan Award in Fiction at the University of Michigan’s 2025 Hopwood Awards.