For a while I have wanted to write about the cult of the shahida; an Arabic word for a female suicide bomber. But in order to talk you need to be able to understand and this is a subject so beyond my ability to grasp time and time again I find I have no […]
tu boca vela de roja nervadura
para mi sed ruidosa dame
tu fuego
enervada frambuesa de tu encía
boca donde desgarrar
este grito desgreñado
donde terriblemente muerto así
ya nunca más la roja
sed encarnadísima
frambuesa y rocío espeso
tu saliva
luz distraída que se alojó en tu boca
dame espada de duro clavel
tu dentadura
para esta fiebre con su lanza
sobre mi lengua desiertos que […]
My friend, the Yakutsk poet and scholar Ekaterina Evseyeva, is part of a project to save the Siberian river Lena. She recently sent me a link to her website, Уважаемые гости сайта!/ Save Lena!, and I am passing this onto you to support the effort to stop big oil companies from despoiling this […]