Breathing Karachi

By afshanamin on February 14, 2011

Eye
You leave the house with
your face half unveiled,
black kohl lining the loath of
your hazel eyes
staring straight into the
shameless gaze

Karachi’s Anatomy

By afshanamin on December 30, 2010

1. Karachi, the nocturnal city with unblinking, wide-opened eyes, glittering under the moonlight. 2. Karachi jolts by the bumpy roads, jerking the vehicles into potholes and bouncing off the bulges; with jammed cars from bumper to bumper, honking and smoldering engines, seething with gasoline. 3. Karachi clutters with brightly painted, rickety rickshaws with cacophonous, ear