Storm seeks a path
through the violence of the trees.
You kill me midst
the chaos
so that they won’t notice.
The roots still breathe
inside.
The molecules of minerals feed it.
In love, the keepers keep.
The chaos provides
a casket for their keeps.
You choke me
in the frozen deep of id,
and outside a shower
wets the concrete.
Move your lock. Wipe your cheeks.
Kushal Poddar
Illustration Nick Victor
Edited the online magazine ‘Words Surfacing’.
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) and “Eternity Restoration Project- Selected and New Poems” (Hawakal Publishers, India)