Dodos Bite Back

Its endemic feet traipse

on the clothesline spliced

to hang our family size peace,

abraded nonetheless.

My sister is found later

inside the car

James hotwires from the Good Garage.

Pop threats both with

a senile gun last fired in a fib

about a war in Far East.

Mother plagues the array of porcelains.

I turn from them, see

the Dodos leaving a bite deep

in the sky,

its body Cheshire all but those feet.

Kushal Poddar
Illustration Nick Victor

Authored ‘The Circus Came To My Island’, ‘A Place For Your Ghost Animals, Understanding The Neighborhood’, ‘Scratches Within’, ‘Kleptomaniac’s Book of Unoriginal Poems’, ‘Eternity Restoration Project- Selected and New Poems’ and now ‘Herding My Thoughts To The Slaughterhouse-A Prequel’ (Alien Buddha Press)

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