For Yara
"Nahr el Fedar"
parched,
sweat clings to clothes,
the summer heat a sizzling white,
the lips black, the eyes a crease in
the skin, and the tongue furred like
the lime scale found in a kettle,
all in all not unlike
a soft drink's commercial,
but this dehydration is nothing
in comparison to the ancient Egyptian
Goddess Isis
who wept the river
Fedar dry, when she chased after
Osiris.
through the mountains
of mythology
into
this metaphor.
"Adonis"
Theouprosopon
the face of the God
like a Kelvin Recline
advertisement, is it Aramis
nah, it is this guy called
Adonis
who cut himself shaving
and the river turned red
nah, he was resurrected
like Jesus, you mean
nah into an afternoon
soap
you don't mean what's his face
you know that hunk
who starred in what's it called
something, something place,
nah, was it River Phoenix,
nah, it was Tammuz
he was slain and every year
it reoccurs
you mean a repeat of the
episode
in which the script writer
writes him out
and then after the second series
he comes back
as Ibrahim
nah -- you aren't getting this
it's very simple
this guy called Aramis
is a ghostbuster
and he has a cousin
called Adonis
who appeared in a
poem
by
Stephen Pain.
for Yara
>
> "Qadisha"
>
> In Qadisha cave
>the stalagmites and stalactites
>look like the set of a German
> Expressionist drama
>a thousand and one Mac the Knives
>lurking in the grey and white lights
> and in these shadows
>we find meaning and tragedies
>
> before Platonism
> there were bats and birds
>
> "Nahr el Kelb"
>
> On the road to the river
>a dog lies in wait for enemies,
>a hound, a breed long thought extinct
>but on this crag, on this off white
> perch, it lives
>as it has done from the time of
>the Ancient Greek, through
> centuries and centuries
>but now it is somewhat muted
>once its bark would carry across
>the mountains of Lebanon and
> further--now it whimpers
>unable to decide what is war
>and what is peace, who is friend
> and who is foe.
>
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