Category: Spring 2011 Poetry
Ghazal for Open Hands
by Martín Espada in memory of Agha Shahid Ali December 10, 2001 Northampton, Massachusetts The imam stands above your
The Wavering ghazal for great – grandmother Ruth
by Caroline Adams A pair so slender conjoins; twin hands, at ends reach the fragile skin of hands. Innocence not nearly as pure as the calm,
All the Ways You Know to Love Us ghazal for asa
by Andrea L. Watson We are blaze you find such dangerous beauty — One thousand jewels confined as dangerous beauty. Veil us in
Patience
by Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller translated by Agha Shahid Ali with the poet My grandmother always served tea hot in cups of thin glass, thin with
Listen to the Falling of the Snow
by Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller translated by Agha Shahid Ali with the poet Listen The fall of the snow like sand rustled to a hiss in the wind it
A Raindrop Observed
by Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller translated by Agha Shahid Ali with the poet How a raindrop fallen from the roof becomes light all by itself though
In a Foreign Country for Maayan and Adi
by Yehudit Ben-Zvi Heller translated by Agha Shahid Ali with the poet Dawn after dawn my mother — a fanatic to Let the air in Let the air in
Little Red Riding Hood’s Reply to the Wolf
by Victoria Zak for my friend — in enchantment — Shahid Only you and I know what really happened that day, my wolf. I wasn’t a child. I
Skating With Jupiter for Agha Shahid Ali
by Douglas “Woody” Woodsum Something there is that loves mitten – piercing cold in the quiet heart of midwinter. The sun sinks. Early
When Paper Weeps
by Lorri Centineo You wrote, “The world is full of paper.” And purple ink. O Kasmiri, Did Shakespeare pull your magic to midsummer nights? Fae