Blackbird an online journal of literature and the arts Fall 2007  Vol. 6 No. 2

POETRY

Chris Abani
Victoria Chang
Michael Chitwood
Keith Ekiss
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc
Beth Ann Fennelly
Raza Ali Hasan
James Hoch
Cyan James
Julia Johnson
Larry Levis
Khaled Mattawa
Timothy O’Keefe
Catherine Pierce
Jon Pineda
John Poch
Austin Segrest
Louie Skipper
Ron Smith
Robert Thomas
Joshua Weiner
Lesley Wheeler
Charles Wright


RAZA ALI HASAN

19

We had barely sat down; the rows had yet to fill up;
the film had not even begun when you, Allah, ordered us

to leave with the usual lover’s promises of “tomorrow,”
of screening our favorite epic on a more favorable tomorrow.

We, the matinee film lovers, were dispersed as the day’s
strong light adjusted to the sadness of twilight.  

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