Acrophobic Eagle In Your Conscience
An acrophobic eagle,
bony winged, sick,
pursues a piece of plastic
across the acropolis streets.
The plastic sports a glint.
The shimmers mimic fish scales.
The bird’s screech permutates your grey cells.
Perhaps your mistake in
backing the car, killing your aunt’s feline,
will appease the eagle’s hunger.
Perhaps this – predestined
The low flight casts corrugated shadow
now here, now nowhere.
Locals call the sea hissing against
city’s boulders & a reservoir of tears.
©Kushal Poddar all rights reserved
Edited the online magazine Words Surfacing, authored The Circus Came To My Island (Spare Change Press, Ohio), A Place For Your Ghost Animals (Ripple Effect Publishing, Colorado Springs), Understanding The Neighborhood (BRP, Australia), Scratches Within (Barbara Maat, Florida), Kleptomaniac’s Book of Unoriginal Poems (BRP, Australia), Eternity Restoration Project- Selected and New Poems (Hawakal Publishers, India), and Herding My Thoughts To The Slaughterhouse-A Prequel (Alien Buddha Press)
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