The Half-inch Himalayas by Agha Shahid Ali

Author:Agha, Shahid Ali
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1987-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

“You are welcome to make your

adaptations of my poems.”

1

You wrote this from Beirut, two years before

the Sabra-Shatila massacres. That city’s

refugee air was open, torn

by jets and the voices of reporters.

As always, you were witness to “rains of stones,”

though you were away from Pakistan, from

the laws of home which said: the hands

of thieves will be surgically

amputated. But the subcontinent always spoke

to you: in Ghalib’s Urdu, and sometimes through

the old masters who sang of twilight

but didn’t live, like Ghalib, to see the wind

rip the collars of the dawn: the summer

of 1857, the trees of Delhi

became scaffolds: 30,000 men

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