Deborah:
Can I ask who the person who is in the coma? Is this about Ariel Sharon in
some very oblique way?
Or just a curious dream. I mean - at least from here - it is hard to write
anything about Israel with raising a bunch of questions, tempers, etc.
Curious,
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> Visiting Israel
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> Visiting Israel
> while you are in a coma . . .
>
> Your eyes
> are the language of butterflies
>
> In the hard cackle
> they, remember a word
> (something like
> a digital manipulation)
>
> Your mind’s webspyder
> hangs on a silver thread
> Its lucid fandango is urgent
> and stuttering
>
> You try to catch a poem
> in your bare hands
> I wonder if you can
> or, will you ever ?
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> In the corners of the wind
> I fold a purple scent
> The white stars of your tongue
> are the pungent taste of Bethlehem
>
> Israel, Israel;
> Israel is the color of your skin
>
> Stars, over and over
> again . . .
>
> Deborah Russell
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