Seven Tombs, Hyderabad
This city has as many tombs as palaces. Its narrative of our presence on this land: our arrival, departure, and sojourn, magnificent and grand And here we are ... to piece this city Rummage for our own stories Amid bean-shaped rocks and stucco roofs, domes patterns of the ornate windows, doors of old homes Dakhni, also spoken in rural Karnataka and Aurangabad Today, grapples for space in the poetry of Hyderabad