Blackbird Archive
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Poetry · Volume 6, Number 2

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Raza Ali Hasan

The ring-doves flew away from the cypress branches;

the petals unhinged like droplets from a spinning umbrella.

The leaves, too, fell, leaving the branches bare.

Below Desolation chalked its path on the ancient garden

pouring concrete over concrete—my lone lament

went unheard in the hardening cement.

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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.