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A fly's crushed body has marked
a point between Hyderabad and Delhi.
He lives there in his dreams.
Under a different light, before partition
he was a boy in the haveli courtyard
tracing the looped script of an ancestor
or memorising each chink of his mother's
braid on a night they stooped to
collect fireflies.
He shuffles to bed,
complains about the whistling in his head,
inspects his chapped hands.
‘This country with all its wind
and broken buds.’
He's not going back.
He wants to sit amongst the stars,
turn his head and see nothing but an
unknown city glinting far behind him.
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