Poetry: Love’s Noise by Rizwan Akhtar
Love’s Noise
The riveting sound of a grass aerator
spills over the dark passage hypnotic
after a chair squeaked through wind
outside the man bent frantically levels
the weeded patches some are too thick
like moments cast by random reaching
unaware that interceptions are natural
a woodpecker knocked and afterwards
the phone burred craving hands and mouth
the topsoil with the sub-soil like fragments
stripped hanging along squelching lumps
the machine pierced its teeth into the turf
guzzled spitting shreds all over the place
how much I miss you with that noise.
Rizwan Akhtar
September, 2020
Lahore, I Am Coming (2017) is the first Collection of poems of Rizwan Akhtar published by Punjab University Press, Lahore.
Three other poems by Rizwan Akhtar
Poems from ‘Lahore, I Am Coming’ by Rizwan Akhtar
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