{"id":7546,"date":"2020-12-13T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=7546"},"modified":"2020-12-20T19:37:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T19:37:44","slug":"sanitizer-truth-as-a-pair-of-underwear-poems-by-kushal-poddar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/sanitizer-truth-as-a-pair-of-underwear-poems-by-kushal-poddar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanitizer & Truth As A Pair Of Underwear – 2 Poems by Kushal Poddar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sanitizer<\/strong>
\n 
\nThe woman holds ‘This Area Has Been
\nSanitized’, forgets to put it down.
\nThe man wears a plague mask.
\nThe woman’s one has an abstract.
\n 
\nA train leaves platform Seven somewhere.
\nI mean I do not know why I hear the track,
\nannouncements, people rushing, waning,
\ngone, when nowhere near the restaurant
\na station says Welcome and Goodbye at the same time.
\n 
\nTime uses the restroom. Piss looks like its blood-work.
\nThe woman orders a salad that has everything
\nnot devoured by the locusts. The man desires an ocean.
\nA waiter who keeps his distance shakes his head,
\n“That’s been banned from circulation since
\nthey tested the fishmonger and found positive.<\/p>\n

I use the fluids from my eyes to wash my hands.
\nMore it stings more it feels decontaminated.
\n 
\nTruth As A Pair Of Underwear<\/strong>
\n 
\n“Truth be my underwear.”, she says
\nand slips out of her pairs;
\nsilence stands by the rain
\nswollen window frame, naked;
\nthe comforter feels wet as if
\nhumidity too lacks any apparel.
\n 
\nI mistake the moon for a black cat;
\nmoaning season, scratches on the wood,
\naunt Helen goes missing albeit her medicine
\nremains as a reminder to the old age.
\n 
\nTruth, sniffed by this pervert, seems a
\nlong forest lone black woman snakes into
\nwhen a white truck chases her.
\nI mistake silence for a tall tree; leaves rustling
\na song only one who sold her soul can sing.
\n 
\n 
\n 
\n\"\"<\/a>
\n 
\n 
\nKushal Poddar
\n 
\nShort bio-
\n 
\nEditor of \u2018Words Surfacing\u2019.
\n 
\nAuthored \u2018The Circus Came To My Island\u2019, ‘A Place For Your Ghost Animals’, ‘Understanding The Neighborhood’, ‘Scratches Within’, ‘Kleptomaniac’s Book of Unoriginal Poems’, ‘Eternity Restoration Project- Selected and New Poems<\/em>‘ and ‘Herding My Thoughts To The Slaughterhouse-A Prequel’<\/em>. Find and follow him https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kushal-Poddar<\/a>
\n 
\nRobin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times<\/a> at Artvilla.com<\/a> ; his publications include
\n 
\nAll the Babble of the Souk<\/em> <\/a>, Cartoon Molecules<\/em>, Next Arrivals<\/em> and Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems<\/em>, collected poems, as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande\u00b4s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist<\/em> <\/a> and the recently published Tesserae<\/em> <\/a> <\/u>, a translation of Carmen Crespo\u00b4s Teselas.
\n 
\nYou may visit Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a>about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sanitizer   The woman holds ‘This Area Has Been Sanitized’, forgets to put it down. The man wears a plague mask. The woman’s one has an abstract.   A train leaves platform Seven somewhere. I mean I do not know why I hear the track, announcements, people rushing, waning, gone, when nowhere near the restaurant … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[869,808,796,366,401,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7546"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7553,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions\/7553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}