Kusha Poddar


My Book of Noir


That I dream dead bodies
In the stream, all skin,
The authority says
Do not exist, and
The incident never happened,
And they died from their own
Fairy gang's bullets, and
Imagine those eraser marks
Across the sky, tail-blazes
Says something about
My love for life. I dream
Lying huddled with them.


Small Messages


In your absence
I water your plant,
Never during
Your presence.

I feed it bone dust,
Blood of a neck wrung
Chicken so it may
Bloom white as if

Everything goes right,
Even brighter
When you live
Somewhere else

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