Two Poems

Bangs, Whimpers, Arts, Culture, and Commentary

by Kushal Poddar

Godot

In the wrong station
that bleeds away
the railway profits,

on an iron bench
painted dim,
and although its
colourants have been
peeling away
you can tell it is green,

sits Mr Godot,
and the time frozen in
one John Smith & Sons Midland
grieves for the late sun.

I have a sign breathing his name
in my molten hands
in the mirror-station to his,
and I yawn, it is quite late.

 

The Behaviour Pattern of the Illusions

Midnight shakes me awake
just before I fall asleep,
and I move the window’s curtain a bit,
see five of our neighbours
sitting in our front yard looking at my house.

I have a gun by my imagination.
I keep it locked in my conscience.
The summer whistles as the dark
reaches the boiling point.

And then, in the same night
I open the curtain with…

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Kushal Poddar

Refuge

Wind flaps open the tent.
Supine, you catch me
making love to darkness,

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Refuge

Wind flaps open the tent.
Supine, you catch me
making love to darkness,
my hands bracing its
non being, my lips
darting inside its depth.
Between to no man’s lands
Here we are. Here I am.
A fistful of breeze.
A tilt of head to see
autumn rushing away
the refugee clouds.

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Body of Hush by Kushal Poddar

An unseen work

I am not a silent poet

The man whose body dump
we didn’t see appears sometimes,
holding the bedstand stares
at us. What! I ask.
His mouth is ours, shut.
His eyes open, run
a late night news-strip.

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Baby Blue by Kushal Poddar

I am not a silent poet

Not talking about him
today.
No. No.
Not thinking about sand
and his
red tee.
I draw two dot pen squares
on white.
Empty.
One he came from and
the other
where he could have lived.

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