KUSHAL PODDAR

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Scordatura

Spring surprises us this time.
"Don't close the door yet.", it says.
"Death awaits on the doorstep."

We cover our mouths as if 
our emotion will escape
through the orifices, yaps.

Death seems to stoop in our yard, 
spread an endless fistful of seeds
and spit to provide them nourishment.

Litanies of leaves recite breeze.
Spring keeps the door open.
We stand near the apartment's end.

Monologue

The bird's monologue demands

nothing of the listeners,

now not being a time for breadcrumbs;

the clouds prearrange their thoughts

and then think them out aloud;

the monologue comes into fashion,

and the roads of this city

drift harking and mishearing

what, one possibility may claim,

could have opened the spaces 

only truths can level.

The bird cares not if they listen.

Kushal Poddar edited the online magazine ‘Words Surfacing’. He authored ‘The Circus Came To My Island’ (Spare Change Press, Ohio), A Place For Your Ghost Animals (Ripple Effect Publishing, Colorado Springs), Understanding The Neighborhood (BRP, Australia), Scratches Within (Barbara Maat, Florida), Kleptomaniac's Book of Unoriginal Poems  (BRP, Australia), Eternity Restoration Project- Selected and New Poems (Hawakal Publishers, India) and now Herding My Thoughts To The Slaughterhouse-A Prequel (Alien Buddha Press)