​                                                      Mother, A Drowned Mermaid
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                              Upturn your head.
                              Watch two soft shark bellied aircrafts in pale blue.
                              Wonder why you can breathe.
                              Decide your mother has a secret mermaid identity
                              and this explains
                              why she drowned herself in a bathtub.
                                                  
                                                     

                                                         KUSHAL PODDAR (1977- ) resides in the city of Kolkata, India.
                                                         Apart from poetries, he has written fictions and scripts for television
                                                         mini-series as well.

                                                         He is the author of “All Our Fictional Dreams” and been
                                                         published in “Poor Poet’s Pantry: Collaborative Poems”. The forthcoming book is 
                                                         “Surviving Cyber Life” and “Five Poets: An Anthology”