{"id":12500,"date":"2017-03-07T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12500"},"modified":"2017-03-07T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T09:05:21","slug":"kushal-poddar-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/kushal-poddar-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Kushal Poddar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non sequitur<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I always imagined icicles<br \/>\nas frozen sighs.<br \/>\nOnce she asked me to commit<br \/>\na perfect crime.<br \/>\nI sighed close to her heart.<br \/>\nWinter. Ducks left our city.<br \/>\nA role play tree howled brown leaves.<br \/>\nI lit a fire.<br \/>\nIt was a non sequitur.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kushal Poddar<\/strong>, widely published in several countries, presently lives at Kolkata and is editor of the online magazine <em>Words Surfacing<\/em>. He authored <em>The Circus Came To My Island<\/em> (Spare Change Press, Ohio), <em>A Place For Your Ghost Animals<\/em> (Ripple Effect Publishing, Colorado Springs), and <em>Understanding The Neighborhood<\/em> (BRP, Australia). His forthcoming venture is\u00a0 <em>Scratches Within<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Non sequitur I always imagined icicles as frozen sighs. Once she asked me to commit a perfect crime. I sighed close to her heart. Winter. Ducks left our city. A role play tree howled brown leaves. I lit a fire. It was a non sequitur. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Kushal Poddar, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12502,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500\/revisions\/12502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}