Agha Shahid Ali - A Footnote to History

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A Footnote to History

For ten centuries
they sent no word

though I often heard
through seashells

ships whispering for help.

I stuffed my pockets
with the sounds of wrecks.

I still can’t decipher
scripts of storms

as I leaf through
the river’s waves.

By Agha Shahid Ali

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