Hark!
Busy work of Hands,
(cooking and cleaning)
leaves my mind free
to embroider a tapestry
of thoughts and emotions,
to breed words
into a patterned piece.
A Title is Born.
(but me, weird Night-Owl,
needs Nightfall to weave
the Babe in electric Wool)

Rebecca Haque is Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka.