Another Sky

An asphalt sky: your memory
Your earth is only a body


Time is a poem approaching
Time is a poem withering
Time is a poem dying
& time is a wailing wall
for poems and dreams


Such is exile
Your bottlenecked bottleneck
The wounded Fatherland's open sores
moaning within you


An asphalt sky: your memory
Your earth is only a body

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Poetry From the September 2005 issue: A Freckle On The Nose: Poetry Over Prose

Mansur RajihMansur Rajih

Mansur Rajih, born in Yemen in 1958, was a prisoner of conscience from 1983-1998. Since then he has been living in exile in Norway. His poetry has been published in Norwegian and this year, for the first time, a book of his poetry has been published in the original Arabic in Yemen.

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Translated from NorwegianNorwegian by Ren PowellRen Powell

Ren Powell is an American writer living in Norway. She has published two books of poetry and ten books of translations.

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