IMITAZ DHARKER- LIVING SPACE

 IMITAZ DHARKER- LIVING SPACE

AUTHOR INTRODUCTION

NAME                   :  Imitaz Dharker

BORN                    : 1954, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

NATIONALITY    : British

OCCUPATION      : Poet, Artist

WORKS                 : 

    BOOKS OF POETRY

• Purdah(1989)
• Postcards from God(1997)
• I speak for the Devil(2001)
• The Terrorist at my table(2006)
• Leaving fingerprint(2009)
• Over the moon(2014)
• Luck in hook(2018)

LIVING SPACE

There are just not enough

straight lines. That

is the problem.

Nothing is flat

or parallel. Beams

balance crookedly on supports

thrust off the vertical.

Nails clutch at open seams.

The whole structure leans dangerously

towards the miraculous.

Into this rough frame,

someone has squeezed

a living space

and even dared to place

these eggs in a wire basket,

fragile curves of white

hung out over the dark edge

of a slanted universe,

gathering the light

into themselves,

as if they were

the bright, thin walls of faith.

By, Imitaz dharker.