Reunion – a poem by Rizwan Akhtar

Reunion
And was at a distance of two bow lengths or nearer. Al Quran
cows moo a big bloke honks their lazy mounds
of bodies school boys tear sugar canes under
a rusty pump a bearded man performs ablution
like that heroine of Punjabi romance
clanking bangles eyes crammed
with mascara a village girl skips over broken
walls heading towards rendezvous
with her lover
a night jar scatters their conference
together they prostrate without waiting the hour
for Prayer join palms making a bow of crescent
hypnotized by echoes of drum beating from
a remote shrine where dancers haul recalling
the reunion of the Last Apostle who crossed
realms on a winged chariot the earth-bound wait.
Rizwan Akhtar
Lahore, I Am Coming (2017) is the first Collection of poems of Rizwan Akhtar published by Punjab University Press, Lahore.
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