Dr. Swetha Ram is a pediatrician and poet from northern Kerala, in India. Her poem “Dear Son” is featured in Agam’s forthcoming anthology of climate literature, Harvest Moon: Poems and Stories from the Edge of the Climate Crisis (out later in 2021). Swetha was working in a rural hospital when Covid-19 hit Kerala. She was chosen for Covid duty and was separated from her toddler for half a year. She wrote “Dear Son” during that separation.
