Monthly Archives: May 2015

ACCEPTING THE DISASTER

Seas rose, and threatened to deluge our lowlands and isthmuses. Our western forests turned to furnaces. Equinoctial dust stopped up our sinuses. Whole species vanished, and, each month, one or two more languages. And the temples burned with heartfelt pointless … Continue reading

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KADDISH, AUX ARMES, Et CAETERA

Stranger things can happen – but I did hear the words of Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, sung to the tune of French national anthem, La Marseillaise. The sacred words walked into a very strange house.   It wasn’t … Continue reading

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FOLLOW, POET

Composer Mohammed Fairouz It’s premature to relegate poetry to mausoleums or crypts.  In some places in the world, people cry, break down and weep to poetry.  They lose it.  It happens in well-worn cafés in Middle Eastern cities like Cairo, … Continue reading

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SAFE HOUSE FOR POETRY

Two men are fighting a duel, or a knife fight. A third person, a woman, sees the men about to kill each other and rushes in to save her lover. She wraps her loving arms around her man. But now … Continue reading

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