Light must have pricked my bowels like needles
Putting to sleep all the days of the past year in a single grave
By mistake the first day of the new year too was buried
Now the contagion of dying is marking all the days
~~~
From "Descent from Tel Za'atar *"
by Afzal Ahmad Syed
*Tel Za'atar: In Beirut in 1976, a Palestinian camp. (Poet's note.)
From: An Evening of Caged Beasts: Seven Postmodernist Urdu Poets (Poetry from Pakistan)
Selected and introduced by Asif Farrukhi
Translated by Frances W. Pritchett and Asif Farrukhi
Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1999.
16 June 2020
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