All white. Your garden
variety of winter
spans beyond the backyard,
fence, swing-set frozen
in the air as if it
carries your daughter,
chin-up, joyous, calling
you in an absurd manner
and beyond the elk on the street
watching its offspring.......
Kushal Poddar is presently living at Kolkata and writing poetry, fictions and scripts for short films when not engaged in his day job as a lawyer in the High Court At Calcutta. He authored ‘The Circus Came To My Island’ (Spare Change Press). The forthcoming books are “The Mood Study Of A Cold Cup” and “A Place For Your Ghost Animals” (Ripple Effect Publishing).
