speak softly, love: Lenox Hill by Agha Shahid Ali →

speaksoftlyl0ve:

(In Lenox Hill Hospital, after surgery, my mother said the sirens sounded
like the elephants of Mihiragula when his men drove them off cliffs
in the Pir Panjal Range.)

The Hun so loved the cry, one falling elephant’s,
he wished to hear it again. At dawn, my mother
heard, in her…

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