Jellyfish

You dream of form:
I appear in water.
You dream of time:
I begin to pulsate.

You dream of life:
I, made in water,
Made of water,
Move in water.

(Somewhere, on land
There is a missing umbrella.
Somewhere, on land
You are drenched to your skin.

Somewhere, on land
You have given up searching
You have taken to dreaming.
Somewhere, on land,

Your missing umbrella
Is waiting for someone
Somewhere, on land,
To open its wings).

Somewhere in the ocean
A portion of water
Is refracting light
In unseen ways.

Here is Jellyfish inscribed on  a transparent umbrella:

H. Masud Taj

H. Masud Taj was most recently affiliated with Carleton University’s School of Architecture and Center for the Study of Islam. He has delivered lectures around the world on topics pertaining to his expertise in Architecture, Poetry, and Calligraphy. His books include “Sikandarah: Calligraphy, Epigraphy, Geometry, Islimi, Poetry (with YD Pitkar and R. Raut)” (2023), “The Embassy of Liminal Spaces” (2014), “Alphabestiary (with B. Meyer)” (2011), and “Nari Gandhi”: Apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright (2009).