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Hussein Shariffe : Mogran
Off that point of confluence
Where two unlikely waters meet
Hot and cold,
In a mad betrothal of incompatibles;
Off that darkness
Of muddied hairy tongues;
Sleep drowned eye
Hugging the waves insomnias
You house your great oblivion
Do you remember
What sudden atrocity of buried suns
Made you glide through the stoniness;
Uncoiled your pythons
Convulsed your birth?
God’s venom!
Now you lie
Smeared with the crusted blood of harnessed lavas.
Your corrugated tentacles
Spread out as a beggars palm
Waiting for mercies
Except to revert
To the void
Of your primal state;
Ash
And the voice of nothing.
