Agha Shahid Ali

Feeling very ungainly today. The Wolf's Postcript to 'Little Red Riding Hood' Agha Shahid Ali First, grant me my sense of history: I did it for posterity, for kindergarten teachers and a clear moral: Little girls shouldn't wander off in search of

Thinking about one particular deadline I would have very much liked to meet. But life is different now, T., so get over it. The Jogger on Riverside Drive, 5:00 A.M. Agha Shahid Ali The dark scissors of his legs cut the moon's raw silk,

There are people to send out postcards to. I keep forgetting. Postcard from Kashmir Agha Shahid Ali Kashmir shrinks into my mailbox, my home a neat four by six inches. I always loved neatness. Now I hold the half-inch Himalayas in my hand. This is home. And

Was reading The Hindu when I came across this poem: Beyond the Ash Rains Agha Shahid Ali               What have you known of loss               That makes you different from other men?               --- Gilgamesh When the desert refused my history, Refused to acknowledge that I had lived there, with you,

Afternoon blues that can't be cured by the sky, or beautiful words, or things I cannot name. Even the Rain Agha Shahid Ali What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the rain? But he has bought grief's