Neutral Days

 Kushal Poddar

 

Near the northern end of our city,

we meet, often in one minute cafe

to sip bitterness liquefied, and nod at its

rather a Spartan decor, its walls lime

mortar grouting;

 

the war between us sees itself on a looking glass;

the blood seems always high on a thinner

bearing steroids pushed to skirmish against

what we now cannot recall, and so our blood flows

 

in between like a neutral strip ripping free

from flesh too dead to remember the fight.

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An author and a father, Kushal Poddar, edited a magazine - ‘Words Surfacing’, authored seven volumes 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'. His works have been translated in ten languages.

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