Poetry in Motion
New York
Stationery
Agha Shahid Ali
Stationery
The moon did not become the sun.
It just fell on the desert
in great sheets, reams
of silver handmade by you.
The night is your cottage industry now,
the day is your brisk emporium.
The world is full of paper.
Write to me.
"Stationery” from The Half-Inch Himalayas © 1987 by author. Reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. I dreamed a world and called it Love (2021) © Jim Hodges, NYC Transit Grand Central-42 St Station. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design.