Kyla Pasha
The Heat of His Departure
He didn’t suffer much. The agonies
of measuring the streets would never
have him but at least he knew
to count the days by who has not
yet died. He meant to map a city
with his feet and bring home to her
new pictures of his heart. But she never
heard the music of roads and shop lights, she only
knew his feet that beat the pavement
dry. She left home without him. He
grew tired of walking but failed to stop,
didn’t find an edge, didn’t fall,
but slowly, without a thought to her clouds
suddenly above him, dissolved
into tar and concrete, wet in his own way.
Years later, she would still feel
the heat of his departure as she
rained and rained and rained
his streets dry.
Kyla Pasha writes poetry, commentary and screenplays no one turns into movies. She lives
and works in Lahore, Pakistan, where she teaches religion and history at a local university.
Her work can be found on GlobalComment.com, Himal Southasian, and on Chay Magazine, a
Pakistani magazine on sex and sexuality that she is co-edits.
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The Heat of His Departure
He didn’t suffer much. The agonies
of measuring the streets would never
have him but at least he knew
to count the days by who has not
yet died. He meant to map a city
with his feet and bring home to her
new pictures of his heart. But she never
heard the music of roads and shop lights, she only
knew his feet that beat the pavement
dry. She left home without him. He
grew tired of walking but failed to stop,
didn’t find an edge, didn’t fall,
but slowly, without a thought to her clouds
suddenly above him, dissolved
into tar and concrete, wet in his own way.
Years later, she would still feel
the heat of his departure as she
rained and rained and rained
his streets dry.
Kyla Pasha writes poetry, commentary and screenplays no one turns into movies. She lives
and works in Lahore, Pakistan, where she teaches religion and history at a local university.
Her work can be found on GlobalComment.com, Himal Southasian, and on Chay Magazine, a
Pakistani magazine on sex and sexuality that she is co-edits.
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