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Volume 7


Outside: Looking In - January 2011


Verse

Written by
Syed Aadil Omer

"With a background in social sciences Syed Aadil Omer meets ends at a leading private hospital in Islamabad. Post work he weaves dreams, thinks poetic and eats lots of sweets in his cozy little cocoon. Some of his poems are published in the youth magazine 'Us'. Currently he is translating a book of poetry from Pushto into English". 

        
      
       
            
              
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                Progress of an Elegy              

              

              
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A poem is coming:

oozing through a tiny opening

of the block —


a bullet hole

from the left

to the right hemisphere

in the skull of this waziristan child.


A poem is coming

wrapped in a blood-stained sheet

upheld in a charpoy

over the shoulders of the bereaved

of a drone strike;


is coming,

screaming to be heard,

staggering under crimson curlicues,

intruding onto the blank peace

of your apathy.

            

        

        

           
          

            
 

            
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