The full poem appears in our Spring 2015 digital issue.
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under a whirling skirt of sky
streaming light and stars
groping for that tremendous hem
gingerly over quicksand
as though steadied
beneath some tongue and dissolving
not the absence of sound
but the presence of silence
or, as if transfixed
by a gaze, stern-serene
surveying a dream
foreign-familiar
—
YAHIA LABABIDI, Egyptian-American, is the author of 6 books. His latest, Balancing Acts: Collected Poems (1993-2014) is forthcoming from Press 53 Silver Concho Poetry Series. For more information, please visit:http://amazon.com/author/yahialababidi
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