Islamabad
There are the gentrified mountains, not
Enough to unsettle, no, but enough
To be a logical foil for the gleaming city
Construed for a new nation.
Climb them, and you see it spread-eagle
Its green grid all the way to the lake
Beyond the brume and smoke of progress.
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‘Islamabad’ is included in Capitals, edited by Abhay K. and published by Bloomsbury India. The anthology includes a poem on every capital city in the world.
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