2 new poems by Kushal Poddar : Drinking with a Priest & Rabbit, Dance

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Drinking With a Priest

Later the priest moots,
"Some dying men stares at me,
holds their gaze as if 
by the power death has vested in them 
they can see through me and my faith
and how I think about something else,
perchance about tomorrow's lunch.
In the life's Venn diagram death is ∩,
and at that point being and beyond intersects.
A man can see or accept the truth of his
lifelong blindness."

The beers in front of us sucks the warmth
of the room. They taste acerbic. 
Through the orange translucency
we can see eachother, a little distorted.

I wish I could see the words compadre
expects to hear, but this is not that day.


Rabbit, Dance

No trace of the magician,
a shot glass of jazz
left full on the table,
I decide to convey the bad news
to the organisers
later,

and shake my head;
the rabbit maze-running inside
won't fall out. 
I pick up the glass from the table.
Now I dance with the shadow,
a rabbit in me.
The grass of silence undulates.
The audience waiting out there
sounds like an orchestra of crickets
in the befouled greenroom.


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From a Burnt Out Diary by Kushal Poddar : poetry

From a Burnt Out Diary

The wind and the ashes 
enact their roleplay again tonight.

One morphs into a Zephyr,
desires to erode away the earth
beneath the other's feet,
and the other loosens its grip
on its form, shape, its pith,
all those probable secrets.

In the end the wind piles
the ashes from one heap to
another.



2 new poems by Kushal Poddar : Hunger & Calendar

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2 new poems by Kushal Poddar : Hunger & Calendar

Hunger

My grandmother's how to cook hunger
is safe in some government locker.

She used to begin with kneading the air.
Rest I cannot remember.

The great great grand kitten of her last pet
mewls hollowness in her withered kitchen garden.

I open the window, take a spoonful,
listen to the ting of the spoon hitting
the base of the bowl.

Calendar

Somewhere, the last year
still holds on to the hinges,
and one drunken overcoat
misses the hook on the wall,
and its fall sounds soft -
one last leaf leaving the calendar.

The barren square inches 
of holographic past haunts
near the midnight.
Some clock slurs a tick and a tock.
You already mislaid the new calendar.
My call from the morning sphere 
hits a echoing blind alley.

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Poem by Kushal Poddar  : The Smile Craft (for Merritt Waldon)

Poem by Kushal Poddar : The Smile Craft (for Merritt Waldon)

Shooting Star, Stars, Heaven, Night Sky

The Smile Craft

for Merritt Waldon

He writes a smile on his face
with three fingers spread,
with night turned on underneath
the lampshade,

and a distant dog barks as
a shooting star passes by –
or is it a airplane paper-crafted

by some child proud and free
every time it flies to the loss?

He writes the good mood for the child.
If you want a photo for keepsake
now is the time.

2 new poems by Kushal Poddar : Drinking with a Priest & Rabbit, Dance

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Hiraeth Series #36 from Kushal Poddar

Hiraeth Series Poem #36

36

On Mondays the collector wakes up
one-day-only-paranoic to
all he has gathered so far -
each matchbox, brass button, 
fountain pen, old map and jazz vinyl.

He grabs his eyes and stare outside.
Downstairs I live in rent -
someone who collects open spaces
fitting for the hearts missing.
I would have stooped to pick those up,
but the process of it feels like
pulling out the magnets from an iron door 
The little plops make me shiver - those
noises of hiraeth. 

I hear the bloodshed in the collector's screams - 
"Nevermore nevermore." 
I should shout that he is not the only one.
Look through my open spaces.
Everything is on fire like some ants
underneath a child's magnifier.

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