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Poetry Foundations Poem-of-the-Day Poem of the Day: Prayer Rug BY AGHA SHAHID ALI Those intervals between the days five calls to prayer the women of the house pulling thick threads through vegetables rosaries of ginger of rustling peppers in autumn drying for winter in those intervals this rug part of Grandmas dowry folded so the Devils shadow would not desecrate Mecca scarlet-woven with minarets of gold but then the sunset call to prayer the servants their straw mats unrolled praying or in the garden in summer on grass the children wanting the prayers to end the womens foreheads touching Abrahams silk stone of sacrifice black stone descended from Heaven the pilgrims in white circling it this year my grandmother also a pilgrim in Mecca she weeps as the stone is unveiled she weeps holding on to the pillars (for Begum Zafar Ali) Agha Shahid Ali, Prayer Rug from The Half-Inch Himalayas. Copyright © 1987 by Agha Shahid Ali. Reprinted with the permission of Wesleyan University Press, wesleyan.edu/wespress/. Source: The Half-Inch Himalayas (1987)

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