Mohammad Rafiq Poems

at every instant, this possibility remains:

instead of one footfall, another footfall.
to jump the fence of a particular simile, metaphor, or symbol
and find some other unknown style, meter, or tempo.
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At midnight the moon was lying across
Padma and Jamuna's sand-and-water-covered cot
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Covered by an instant's nakedness. the drum-roll of mid-monsoon rain.
primal sound rumbles up from Omkarnath's throat.
Ramkinkar's Santhal family. stillness, motion.
in the primal touch of skin, the stretching of sun and moon. stars and soil.
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Ho now, Beguni! your lover's coming tonight
so comb your hair, coil your braids high
hush, Kirtinasha's rising, racing, drenched in desire
under the last full moon in this season of sighs
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