Windows
'Look!
All these buildings are like ghost ships
In the gathering dark.'
'Yes, but look again,
The lights have come on,
There are people moving around.'
'But they look so remote, so alien,
The figures in the windows
Just like cardboard cutouts.'
'True, and yet,
Dearest, those oblongs of light
Are our home...'
'...Fragile slates
On which we may adumbrate
Our unsteady kisses.'
All these buildings are like ghost ships
In the gathering dark.'
'Yes, but look again,
The lights have come on,
There are people moving around.'
'But they look so remote, so alien,
The figures in the windows
Just like cardboard cutouts.'
'True, and yet,
Dearest, those oblongs of light
Are our home...'
'...Fragile slates
On which we may adumbrate
Our unsteady kisses.'
Kaiser Haq is professor of English at Dhaka University.
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