Blackbird Archive
← v6n2, Fall 2007
Poetry · Volume 6, Number 2

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Raza Ali Hasan

We had barely sat down; the rows had yet to fill up;

the film had not even begun when you, Allah, ordered us

to leave with the usual lover’s promises of “tomorrow,”

of screening our favorite epic on a more favorable tomorrow.

We, the matinee film lovers, were dispersed as the day’s

strong light adjusted to the sadness of twilight.

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Raza Ali Hasan

Raza Ali Hasan’s book of poetry, Grieving Shias , was published by Sheep Meadow Press in 2006. His second poetry manuscript, 67 mogul miniatures, is forthcoming from Autumn House Press in 2009. His poems have appeared in AGNI, Shenandoah , Tampa Review, Cimarron Review , Puerto del Sol and Poetry International . Hasan received an MFA from Syracuse University, and also has an MA in English from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently a visiting professor at Iowa State University.