Poem

Karachi

by Rafiq Kathwari

 

A stray dog pulls apart a donkey’s corpse.

A camel pacing into the rushlight stomps on

 

mini sand-ruins of treads and tracks:

What did this: a quad bike, a Humvee?

 

A shadow lengthens on the beach.

Stars glow in Hi Rises inland from the sea’s edge.

 

People live in a bright hour, as Emerson said.

The bright falls. The night rises.

 

For Beena Sarwar, from photos she shared