Fragments from Firefly
after Iqbal
A candle among the roses
In the garden
A shooting star
A loop of the moon's robe
A speck in the sun's hem
In and out of eclipse
Consul of day
In night's kingdom
Unknown at home
Lucid in exile
Unlike the moth
The firefly is light
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Song is the nightingale's scent
Scent is song of the rose
Rose's scent is the firefly's radiance
by Rafiq Kathwari, whose book of poems, In Another Country, is scheduled for
publication in September 2015 by Doire Press, Ireland. More work here.