Response Poem 4: Rubina
Response to
A Butcher by Agha Shahid Ali
Meat Cute 
In the lane
near Ghalib’s Haveli 
Romance fills
the December air
Chandni
Chowk lights up our eyes.
We share a
cycle rickshaw ride
Bumping heads
and rubbing shoulders
All road
blocks slowly clearing up. 
The silence
that says a million words
As we walk
by Jama Masjid to Karim's
The sheer
joy of sharing a sheermal. 
Moinuddin’s
spicy kebab with onions 
But what a
delicious Meat-cute. 
The night
sweeter with Mian ji’s kheer
With Ghalib’s
only living relative 
Translating
moments into couplets.
As Tinder
bursts into flames
We become ashes
immersed 
In the moonlight
of Chandni Chowk. 
(for
Abhinav)
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