← v20n1, Spring 2021Poetry · Volume 20, Number 1
The Heart of Daggers
The heart of daggers in the hands of the homeless,
Your childhood has wallowed among pigs,
When the time was being, you breezed;
Bee, bee, nimble for the ooze of dance and displacement in the head,
Why did not they call you: Your Excellency . . .
Lord Bomb, a bomb in your head!
Without him, without an Arab in desert
We, the stampede of the camels, the stomp of the wildest world before us!
You danced on a body, on a tongue you died . . .
You had been bringing the book, the game is the game of your fingers . . .
A finger hanging over the time, without an Arab in the desert, they cut off your feet,
We with you, we without everyone . . .