All Is Well – Kushal Poddar

It’s not so bad-
the car rolls back from its tilted display
while the sales girl in red
invites to play for the win.

It’s not so bad-
so low down I feel escaping the car,
almost find the hell I know
I have here within.

It’s not so bad
to find and to lose the sand grain
and to breathe it in so the blood
streams it to the heart,

and it’s not so bad
to forget what I desire to say
in the first place.
I grab my hand and shove myself
into the fall.

About the contributor: Kushal Poddar 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) and “Eternity Restoration Project- Selected and New Poems” (Hawakal Publishers, India)