Kushal Poddar | Poems
Hiroshima Tree
Behind us, one tree flares up
a second-hand memory of Hiroshima.
Behind us, one solitary tree is Hiroshima, the blast-moment city.
We break our breads, sweet, too dolce,
with a promise of the cherries on top
in the middle, but not quite the real ones.
We suck those sugar-glazed red globes.
We have inherited the faux world,
and we feed the bird because life
feels like a taut skin at any moment
it can be singed, peeled away.
We should kiss – we think together.
The air in between us plays a refrain.
The notes scattered all over the park
to the applause of the pigeons.
One moment they are here; in the next not.
Bees
Without the bees
the world as we know it
will be stung to nullity.
I tell my daughter.
Her hand guards her eyes
as the buzz flares in
its sun-like buzz
spiking the ovulating breeze.
Music Left Me
The butter knife I strike against
the dish and the plate with
a soggy biscuit
spills some music.
The newspaper states that there
should be no note left
in my head.
The flash is – the music
has been last seen standing
holding the mast of a bridge
the authority forgot to build.
White Reverie
In the white reverie
of this weeds’ field
on a sunless day
we roll together.
The act of love is grass-bottom here.
The act of love sins,
gently releases thin petals in the air.
One yelping dog stares
from his ninety nine degrees angles.
An author, journalist and a father, Kushal Poddar, editor of ‘Words Surfacing’, authored eight books, the latest being ‘Postmarked Quarantine’. His works have been translated into eleven languages.
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