
Two Poems
Monsoon Came During the Pestilence &
Apocalypse
by Kushal Poddar
Monsoon Came During the Pestilence
A heavy bottom cloud rides
one mystical dildo of some place of worship.
If you do not know monsoon know this -
it doesn't arrive; it suddenly exists.
The blades of grass stridulate a muddy war
history of heart remembers for bloodiness.
Suddenly the mind ceases.
The pit proves its life.
If you do not know what you know stare
at the pane - the thick thighs of rain
throttles the monuments.
Apocalypse
Remember this - no cops visit the neighborhood
since the pestilence. Let's rob the powerless
ice-cream parlour naked.
The streets survive the fulmination of grass.
I devour a hodgepodge burger until I remember
hunger shall return to diminishing resources.
Let's rob something. Naked.
Tim says, he needs to bury his mother
sometime soon. The refrigerator dies away.
I promise him to write a new series of funeral rites.
And a new religion. We lord the swarm. The fittest.
A poet and a father, Kushal Poddar, edited a magazine - Words Surfacing, and authored seven volumes of poetry including The Circus Came To My Island, A Place For Your Ghost Animals, Eternity Restoration Project - Selected and New Poems and Herding My Thoughts To The Slaughterhouse - A Prequel.
Find and follow him at https://www.amazon.com/Kushal-Poddar/e/B07V8KCZ9P