Tuesday, April 7, 2009

from The Funeral of New York


Picture the earth as a pear
or breast.
Between such fruits and death
survives an engineering trick:
New York,
Call it a city on four legs
heading for murder
while the drowned already moan
in the distance.
New York is a woman
holding, according to history,
a rag called liberty with one hand
and strangling the earth with the other.


Excerpt from poem by Adonis

(Ali Ahmad Said Asbar)

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