{"id":3191,"date":"2019-12-20T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2019-12-26T16:22:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T20:22:54","slug":"weekly-feature-holographic-animals-a-poem-by-kushal-poddar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2019\/12\/20\/weekly-feature-holographic-animals-a-poem-by-kushal-poddar\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Feature | Holographic Animals, a poem by Kushal Poddar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@manidip95?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Manidip Mandal<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/images\/animals\/owl?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/h6>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Animals, mostly holograms, flicker.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The roads to the woods<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">dream if they could meander back<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">inside our limbic systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We chance upon a tree<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">with an interior hollowness<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">hosting a hoot. No bird we see.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our children wait for the circus.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Holograms after holograms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We buy them candyflosses.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rain cauterizes holes on the tent.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">We should stay at home with screens on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The n&#8217;th president denies the climate<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">and concentration of death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Kushal Poddar is author of numerous titles, including \u2018Herding My Thoughts To The Slaughterhouse-A Prequel\u2019 with Alien Buddha Press.\u00a0 You can find more of his work on his <a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/author\/kushalpoddar_thepoet\">Amazon author page<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kushalpoe\">@ kushalpoe on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by\u00a0Manidip Mandal\u00a0on\u00a0Unsplash Animals, mostly holograms, flicker. The roads to the woods dream if they could meander back inside our limbic systems. 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