II
from The Lady of Syros
Summary
Shut in with the dead
I adopted their indifference to what was outside
The living were no friends of ours
they accused us of throwing stones into their sleep
of howling with wolves and echoes
of hindering the rivers’ flow although we'd never pushed ahead of the smallest stream
they said we were rooted though we moved from burial plot to burial plot with our load of crumbling bones
that we were what no longer was
identical only to ourselves
reversible in rainy or in humble weather
The freshly painted newcomers looked at us with disdain
incapable of informing us about what we had become
if we were habitable or inhabited […]
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- A Handful of Blue EarthPoems by Vénus Khoury-Ghata, pp. 5Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2017