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Two Poems by Sarim Baig

You are the Smoke You are the smoke, at the center of my eye: you are, shattered like the universe.…

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Bougainvillea

  Rustam was the only grown up from the outside world who was our friend. He was the arm wrestling…

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The Lord of Garbage

‘Dig boy, Dig!’ the old man cried in the cold drizzle of the morning. Outside the tarpaulin shack, a lean,…

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The Player

‘I had a mud house by the river,’ said the ragged man of forty or so with a harmonium at…

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Zakaullah

In December of 1990, a gritty grey fog settled down over Suratwala village. A few years ago, too, it had…