| This Edition's Poetry |
Fragile messages
A desolate window ablaze with
twenty red lights is all this home has.
Still path slips away; body gives away;
you return to a forlorn Christmas.
Beeps wait at the answering machine
programmed to accept; not to respond.
Twenty red lights is all you have from
the last year’s bash. Numb hands pour a drink.
An eddy of warmth as false as cards,
as false as words you have sent, received.
Greetings; old chairs, sofas, utensils!
Greetings; a pitiful large bed, unmade!
by Kushal Poddar
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Kushal Poddar (1977- ) resides in the city of Kolkata, India and writes in his second language English. Previously, he has been published in Bengali on several occasions and has written fictions and scripts for television mini-series as well.
His English poetries have been published in the online magazines like “Shine”, “Apparatus”, “Heron’s Nest”, “Word Salad Magazine”, “Birds on line” and “DR. NI'S NEWS” apart from on several other literary web-sites. He has been published in the book “Poor Poet’s Pantry: Collaborative Poems”