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in this issue
- EDITORIAL
- MEDITERRANEAN POETS: Achour Fenni
- Fatima Naoot
- Rana al-Tonsi
- Sabina Messeg
- Tal Nitzan
- Simone Inguanez
- Samira Negrouche
- Adrian Grima
- ICELANDIC POETS: Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir
- Sigurdur Pálsson
- Adalsteinn Ásberg Sigurdsson
- WELSH-BELGIAN POETRY WORKSHOP
- POETRY REVIEWS:Softly Creaking Englishes
- FOUND IN TRANSLATION
Sabina Messeg
Elementary Facts of a Galilean FarmPhoto: Karolis Zukauskas
bone-white
boulders
heaped into fences
clumps
of earth
ploughed to allow water
pines
pinned down
to delineate the map
of
my being
here
upon firm earth
under unstable skies
and the olives -
ripening patiently beneath
the silver
leaves
in sun
in rain
in front of my eyes -
the oil
that used to anoint
kings
but lets me
dip
in
it
black bread
white onion causing tears
The Age of Claypots
Each rock - an accumulation of skeletons
left by the primordial sea
Each stone you move
- unmoved
since the world began
Each shard
invokes
the age of jars
glazed green inside
and the hand
of those who lifted them to drink
in big gulps
their small lives
or vice versa:
in small gulps
the great life!
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