Calcutta, 1971
artwork by amina
Puffy with premature age,The buttons all broken,
Threatened at the seams;
Only the brown belt of the Hooghly
And the stitch of tramlines
Hold back the bursting.
Published in K Haq's Published In The Streets of Dhaka: Collected Poems: 1966 -2006.
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