Response Poem 1 : Manya

A continuation of Agha Shahid Ali's :

The Fate of the Astrologer

Sitting on the Pavement Outside
the Delhi Railway Station

"Pay, pay attention to the sky,"

he shouts to passers-by.

The planets gather dust 

from passing trucks.

I lean in to look a little more closely,

but it is too dark to see what's for, what's against me.

I grasp every beam that I see,
some by the short end, few coil around me.

They snap, always
and I, almost


levitate



...








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