Tete-a-tete

tamarisk leaves

Tears roll down abruptly

from eyes

A cool breeze scatters all around

its touch

Dew falls, and wet becomes a

blue sari

Every secret laden in the wind

tumbles out

on the banks of each river and

every sea

It's all the fault of this rain-smoothened

weather.

Rashida Sultana is one of Bangladesh's younger women writers.

S.Amin lives in Iowa.