Poetry Writings Artwork and stories from Neil Furby

Sep 22, 2007 at 09:34 o\clock

Wind by He Xiaozhu

 
Wind
stepping out, all is wind
wind beneath your clothes pulls you
these are your first steps in a highland city
wind tearing at your two feet
you are afraid that beyond the city gate is the abyss
cities of the highlands
like grains of sand on paper
trembling in the wind

Sep 22, 2007 at 09:26 o\clock

The Poet

Suniti Namjoshi
Saying that this was what it felt like to put
the right foot forward, and then the left, saying
that this was the taste of morning porridge,
that of milk, and this other of a niggling
but persistent pain, saying —
that, I suppose, was what was distinctive —
being unable to keep my mouth shut,
my mind from working. But a poet lives
like any other creature, talks perhaps
more than is normal, her doom no brighter,
nor her death less dismal than any other.