One Moonlit December NIght

One moonlit December night
you came knocking at my door,
I took my time to open.
When I did,
there was just a silk scarf,
frayed, half-stuck in the latch.

from The Lunar Visitations (New York, 1990) & Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Confronting Love: Poems (Penguin, 2005), and forthcoming in Blue Nude: New Selected Poems & Translations 1980-2010.