Friday, March 07, 2003
Axis of Poetry
Excerpts from Iraqi Poetry Today.
We have tales full of tragic knights,
who descend upon burning horses
from distant skies
like meteors at night.
We have many sleeping dinosaurs, which we have tied to rocks
in green meadows full of singing birds.
-- from In a magic land by Fadhil al-Azzawi
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