And the sky, the road, the glass of wine?
The sky is a shirt wet with tears,
the road a vein about to break,
and the glass of wine a mirror in which
the sky, the road, the world keep changing.
Before You Came
by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Translated by Agha Shahid Ali
This cat always hangs out on a dock in the afternoon waiting to catch the last rays of winter sun. Occasionally it’ll come over and let me give it a head scratch, but today it was perfectly happy to stretch out in the last rays of sun and look at me, when it felt so [...]
by Karoli on December 27, 2008
In one of those droplets, I am looking back at you.