Her umbrella slaughters the rain for her;
her child skips ahead into the slurred oblivion,
the circular train completing its round;
“Come here! Watch the crossing!” she shouts.
The shit is knee-deep.
Two canoes from the hell arrive to the paradise of kissing.
In the embrace of the lovers rain remains inclusive.
“Come here!” shouts a mother already late for tomorrow.
Kushal Poddar
Illustration Nick Victor
Short bio-
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) and now Herding My Thoughts To The Slaughterhouse-A Prequel (Alien Buddha Press)
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