Kushal’s haunting poem on DifferentTruths.com captures an abducted king’s lost appetite for a surreal meal of palace memories, gasoline, and elusive freedom.
The meal for the abducted king tastes
complex, consists of his childhood palace,
gasoline, freedom and the metal railings
if licked after a rain. He has lost his
appetite and reign. On one of the walls
kept him captive, moth nurses sleep.
He writes to his one-time friend –
Time is unfriendly. From a great distance,
a line of red represents both dawn and dusk,
both fire and celebration.
Picture design by Anumita Roy
Kushal Poddar, the author of ‘A White Cane for the Blind Lane’ and ‘How to Burn Memories Using a Pocket Torch’, has ten books to his credit. He is a journalist, father of a four-year-old, illustrator, and editor. His works have been translated into twelve languages and published across the globe.
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