Monday, 15 October 2012

All right




We wanted to see her again. They said it was not possible, she was too busy always. We tried every week for forty years. Many times they threaten to jail us, but we kept on going. We just wanted to see her one more time and tell her that everything was going to be all right.






Monday, 8 October 2012

The






We pile up our old toys and throw them away. We are cross with our sister who will not get rid of anything....
 
Eternal flame bronze statues The Great Leader upon us, plied with fervour we cry and shout paroxysm a red sea
 the promised land 
We are someone with The Great Leader

Monday, 1 October 2012

Be









Beguiled, lost, trembling
 Our sister despaired
She looked in the mirror
 Weeping at the sight of growth
 
 Her lover strewn in a heap. The river, witness to their encounters, flooded. Our sister sits on the small beach.
 
 
 
 









Monday, 24 September 2012

Village





The war decimated the village. There are only old women and children, and a few men too sick to do anything.

Monday, 17 September 2012

T








We disappear at the bottom of the garden. The tree wall protects us from the sun. We whisper and stay forever. They came and look thorugh the house. They took the maid with them.
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 Our sister, clothed in black, motionles in her chair, took too many pills. Mother said it was just one of those things. Father that the maid went through his papers and needed a fright. Our sister tears roll.

Monday, 10 September 2012

D






I dream in languages I don't know
I desire the breeze of faraway places
I sit under the mango tree singing of foreign soils

Blind to the sun
Scattered

I dream

Monday, 3 September 2012

H





Our bones rattle and the heart is heavy
We wait for her, we need her music
From time to time the breeze lightens
We think we can hear her breathing behind us
Hope just hope