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Kazim Ali: Love Note

May 13, 2011 by PBQ

a window from the afternoon dreams the evening
nomad, again the wind’s eye is asking to see you

bound as you are by the chords pulled down from the sky
afternoon’s restless discussion scatters

the years are pulled taut as strings
and it is frightening not to know

what these days will sound like at the end
night unwraps itself then bliss

the heart of me works
no one is known or seen

here I am adrift in the sky empty,
the strings now languid, draped loosely

I’m in love with you here
Sunday night and silence

you’re starless, wonder-filled
a full realization

why wouldn’t I thrashing and rapt
imagine you as a cool night, a gift

this amazement
you’re a promise thrown over the railing

dark to dark, a pen writing back to me
as it falls against the sky

this is you, in love with a world you cannot see—
listen: the world promised it would be yours and it was yours

Filed Under: Contributors 73, Issue 73, Poetry, Poetry 73 Tagged With: Contributors 73, Kazim Ali, Poetry, Poetry 73

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