COLLAGE FOR THE DEAD
For those killed by the 12/26/04 tsunami
There came a stillness, and there came a storm,
and all the oceans came.
I dig, you dig, and the worms dig too,
and that singing out there says: They dig.
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I was looking at them from another country
And I cannot tell their story.
Show me a word I can use.
Show me a verb.
Let them speak for themselves.
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"My son is crying for his mother,"
"I think this is her," he said. "I recognize her hand."
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To help relief efforts click here.
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Notes: Each stanza comes from the following source:
1) Paul Celan, THERE WAS EARTH INSIDE THEM, and they dug
2) Ariel Dorfman, Vocabulary
3) Bejkhajorn Saithong, Sri Lankan survivor of the tsunami, as reported by Reuters
For those killed by the 12/26/04 tsunami
There came a stillness, and there came a storm,
and all the oceans came.
I dig, you dig, and the worms dig too,
and that singing out there says: They dig.
---------------------------
I was looking at them from another country
And I cannot tell their story.
Show me a word I can use.
Show me a verb.
Let them speak for themselves.
----------------------------
"My son is crying for his mother,"
"I think this is her," he said. "I recognize her hand."
-----------------------------
To help relief efforts click here.
-----------------------------
Notes: Each stanza comes from the following source:
1) Paul Celan, THERE WAS EARTH INSIDE THEM, and they dug
2) Ariel Dorfman, Vocabulary
3) Bejkhajorn Saithong, Sri Lankan survivor of the tsunami, as reported by Reuters
posted by David Leftwich at 5:33 PM
1 Comments:
These few poems....well, these poems...well, these poems.... these few poems give me a noun and/or a verb and/or an adjective where/when noun and verb and adjective didn't heretofore exist. Are there others? I'm flailing.
Thanks, too, for the link to relief efforts.
Bestus, Crag Hill
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