Arabic
One pomegranate fell
It was evening
in our yellow trees
Sweet mouthed
and loose lipped
I spoke a language
wet with seeds
that written down
would loop and staff
and dot
...from the Girl in the air 2006
Email me to reserve a copy at ellen@ellendevries.org
The book is illustrated by Patrice Le Garrec and is choc-full of pips and many other illustrated treats.
He takes such good account of silence and fuses the poems' imagery so that the work carries the reader closer to the poem, and into a moody kind of extra-world with reverse-mermaids and
flying machines.
I hope you'll enjoy it and ask me lots of questions.