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🎵 The Blue Hour: Nevertheless

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It begins with a word as small as the cry of Athena’s owl.

Harmolypi
by Carolyn Forché

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https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2017/january/five-poems-carolyn-forche

RE: #poetry

“How can one confuse that much destruction with one woman's painful life?

Est-ce que je vous dérange? she asked. Et pourquoi des questions?

Because in French there is no auxiliary verb corresponding to our English did

As in

Did you wait for him to come back? and Did he return from the war alive?

Or

Did you decide in Beirut to go on without him?”

#CarolynForché

RE: #poetry #TheAngelOfHistory

“The past is not where you left it, Svetko.
It is a ruined city, spackled with grief,
The house, still yellow stucco with pear trees.
Empty swallow nests hang in the eaves
woven with bits of collar and sleeve.
There is a diary open to the words

*cannot remain here.*”

#CarolynForché