{"id":3144,"date":"2017-05-16T00:19:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T00:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2017-05-16T00:21:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T00:21:06","slug":"approaching-cuttack-nilesh-mondal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/approaching-cuttack-nilesh-mondal\/","title":{"rendered":"Approaching Cuttack by Nilesh Mondal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3145 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nilesh-Mondal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"393\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nilesh-Mondal.jpg 1059w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nilesh-Mondal-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nilesh-Mondal-768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Nilesh-Mondal-678x1024.jpg 678w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 260px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 260\/393;\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Approaching Cuttack<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Nilesh Mondal<\/p>\n<p>approaching Cuttack, she looks up<br \/>\nfrom the illuminated screen of her<br \/>\nphone, this city was almost made<br \/>\ncapital, she tells me<\/p>\n<p>almost, I ask, in my mind I think of<br \/>\nanother night, another woman<br \/>\nwho tells me, the thought of being<br \/>\nalmost naked, excites her<\/p>\n<p>Cuttack exists where two rivers<br \/>\ndiverge, she tells me, and some<br \/>\nyears, both would flood<\/p>\n<p>some rivers grow up, believing<br \/>\nthey hold calamities between<br \/>\ntheir thighs, not knowing, it was<br \/>\nthe cities which were erected on<br \/>\nground, that turned to quicksand<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Nilesh Mondal, 23, is an engineer by choice and poet by chance.<br \/>\nHe works as a writer for Terribly Tiny Tales and Thought Catalog, and as prose editor for Moledro Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>His works have been published or are forthcoming in Muse India, Inklette, Coldnoon, Cafe Dissensus, and many more.<br \/>\nHis first book of poetry, Degrees of Separation, is scheduled for a 2017 release<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nilesh Mondal, 23, is an engineer by choice and poet by chance.<br \/>\nHe works as a writer for Terribly Tiny Tales and Thought Catalog, and as prose editor for Moledro Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}