There comes a morning crow
on my everyday window.
Memories, will you bring it back
again and again, through and through?
Somehow happiness eases into
my system, a shiny screw,
and I forget my family, parents too.
Instead, my childhood crow
shows up on my morning window.
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)