Persephone's Finger
...Persephone’s Finger
By Sy Roth
It wormed its way to the surface.
Pointy finger tested the air,
Wriggled in a sensuous Fatima dance
Etch-a-Sketching the crepuscular sky above,
Shaming the ...
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Categories:
tambours, angst, character, day, death,
Form: Free verse
La Paix Et Le Desert - Translation of Kevin Gilbert's Peace and the Desert By T Wignesan
...La Paix et le Désert – Translation of Kevin Gilbert’s « Peace and the Desert » by T. Wignesan
Pendant que la braise du campement de feu scintille
J’entendis l’appel
du courlis annonçant la na...
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Categories:
tambours, bereavement, depression, grief, history,
Form: Free verse
Last
...The tongue slips
over the grayish-blue
edge
of a Catalonian knife.
Salt.
Tambours bang.
Me or him.
The dark dance starts.
A step
… a jump.
The night –
an award for death.
A red dress –
survival.
Curs...
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Categories:
tambours, passion,
Form: Free verse