by Kushal Poddar
When Sarah's husband dies from Covid-19 she takes in a rooster, begins calling it Sam. Her husband's name. The fame of their legend perturbs the neighbourhood wind. The mornings moan in early awakening the doors next and next to the next until the ripples meet the sea, salt, and wetness, lost and returning, and when the rooster dies from avian flu, Sarah invites her neighbourhood to the dinner and grief. That's all there is to it. Sea, flesh, charcoal, bones.
Biography
An author and a father, Kushal Poddar edited a magazine – ‘Words Surfacing’, authored seven volumes including ‘The Circus Came To My Island’, ‘A Place For Your Ghost Animals’, ‘Eternity Restoration Project- Selected and New Poems’ and ‘Herding My Thoughts To The Slaughterhouse-A Prequel’.
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