Sorry Christina - out of my league to comment or appreciate, not quite
enough to entice me to look up the references - because I'm a lazy sod.
Probably works a treat for those in the know.
Cheers,
frank
>
> Septembers
>
>
> I think of Lutfi - his dictionary,
> his index finger missing.
>
> Here are his three wise monkeys - I keep them
> to remind me of what he said
>
> about Deir Yassin - how my memory
> drowned in oil. How I swallowed
>
> and forgot Qibya, gulped
> and the gulf deepened, widened
>
> until I saw a tidy evil,
> plugged ears and closed mouths,
>
> failed to mark the years
> between Septembers.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> christina fletcher
The Tales of Faust poetry page can be found at:
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~flp/F_index.htm
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