We shall meet again, in Srinagar, …
Agha Shahid Ali
I’ll do what I must if I’m bold in real time. …
Swear by the olive in the God-kissed land— …
The Hun so loved the cry, one falling elephant’s, …
Those intervals …
“Each ray of sunshine is seven minutes old,” …
Pale hands I loved beside the ShalimarPale . . . Shalimar The epigraph is from a 12-line poem entitled “Kashmiri Song.” There are allusions to “Kashmiri Song” throughout this poem. The Shalimar Garden, in Lahore, Pakistan, was built by the Mughal Emperor Jahangir in 1619 for his wife Nur Jahan. …
Efficient as Fate, …