The Roadkill
You
already have arisen to the steady sobbing.
"Do
you think her son is still locked inside?"
I
step out.
Night
has left its sanguine plumes on our staircase;
its
predator moans in the darkness; spring mates
in
the pollen ridden milieu with humid heat.
No
snivelling I hear.
Your
hands have the threshold in their choke-hold.
The
throbbing in our hearts is singular and dead
by
asphyxiation. I say, "No. They took her son away,
remember?"
Rita
went to her job the other day and didn't return.
Her
three years old son remained bolted inside.
We
would not babysit him since we found F-words
lying
around in presence of our own child.
Idle
Haunting
The
senescent ghost of our household
dies every time it stares at a mirror-
an
ever-playing groove, and the frayed music
roams
around our flesh and its spirit.
One
mandatory rope swing in our yard
gives
away one or two untimely creak.
One
black-naped oriole calls to nothing,
and
I do not know which bird's titular tune rings.
I
and my daughter stands at the oblivion point
midst
the threshold. Light leaves us and the ghost alike.
Again
and again summer comes, goes.
The
shadows grow to decay to regrow.
Sometimes
I push my daughter on the swing.
Some
nights it rides high on itself.
Crude
Letters
One
'I need a white shirt day'.
Wrinkles
set dumpster-fire
in
the yard of 'Yes sir'.
My
colleague's ears itch; still he hears me
while
sucking one dead insect from his latte.
He
whispers something about an F-word mail
one
should keep in an 'in case of emergency' folder.
I
stare at the pavement below, a naked man
turns
in his bed made from a decayed overcoat.
For
these days we keep 'I support' badges,
and
then there flow the other days when
we
toss a coin that bumps against the homeless flesh.
An author and a father, Kushal Poddar, edited a magazine - ‘Words
Surfacing’, authored seven volumes including ‘The Circus Came To My Island’, 'A
Place For Your Ghost Animals', 'Eternity Restoration Project- Selected and New
Poems' and 'Herding My Thoughts To The Slaughterhouse-A Prequel'. His works
have been translated in ten languages.
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