The Poetry of War […Syria]
PUBLISHED IN : THE PEREGRINE MUSE/ POETS INTERNATIONAL http://www.theperegrinemuse.com/PoetsInternational/sergio-ortiz/ The Poetry of War […Syria] If I could catch up with the rhythm of things I'd stop talking and sink into a deep historical silence— poetry of the dead. Ghosts and gyres, sages and tyrants, expressions of longing for a lost world. The misplaced shoes of a gassed girl. Silence studies the unregarded floor, the effect of Sarin on our lungs, the involuntary twitching of the legs. Yet we must dig deeper into earth to find the epiphany of these actions. Perhaps the temple was a defective construction. Or “Nothing” is more than an absence whose advent is to be welcomed. “Nothing,” a furiously crossed-out “Something,” Absence, whiteness, silence. The Poetry of War, Part Two […USA] This is about waiting, shifting from one foot to another, the fog thickening the hig