Call It Ishmael Today

After Agha Shahid Ali, and his contents

I have loved
Arabic,
for you,
by exiles
of it all
in real time;
of fire
things;
shines
my word
from the start;
angels
of water
as ever
land;
not all, only a few return,
even the rain,
water
of snow,
air,
about me
in marble
bones;
in,
beyond English
of light
stars,
for time
God;
forever;
after you,
in Arabic,
tonight
existed.