Monday, September 15, 2014

SOMETIMES SECRETS
ONLY COME
AFTER THE FALL


Poem for Today - Friday - September 19, 2014

THE FALL

I live between the fire and the plague
with my language—with this mute universe.
I live in the apple garden and the sky,
in the first joy and the first despair,
in Eve's arms
a master of those cursed trees,
a master of the fruits,
I live between the clouds and lightning
in a growing stone, in a book
that teaches the secrets and the fall.

(1961)

© Adonis (‘Aku Ahnad Sa’id) [1930- ],
pages 161-162, in
When the Words Burn,
An Anthology of
Modern Arabic Poetry: 1945-1987,
translated by John Mikhail Asfour



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