{ "Writing is a small ant which bites extinction. / Writing is a bloodless wound." }

[delga]

Was going to make a proper post about happenings this week, but then I read that Mahmoud Darwish died today, too, and that scuppered that one.

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I can't find a good version of Darwish's State of Siege to post here, so I'll have to type it from my own copy. Wonderful verse; wonderful scope:

[to a reader] Don't trust the poem
She is the absentee daughter. She is neither an intuition
nor a surmise, but a sense of disaster