Erika Meitner & Philip Metres
Wednesday, November 6, 2019, 8:00 pm
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Marginalia
Of this place I choose the wind.
–Mahmoud Darwish
Your throne was
margin. Your voice
a ruin of Birwe,
the thrown
and the road.
What remains
of what you
walked on?
Of this place
you chose
the wind. Of
and of. Odysseus
and Scheherazade,
you woke
to morning inside
a suitcase. Yourself
and not yourself,
you are,
at last,
arced textures
housed in
our mouths.
You opened
the window,
all these rain
shards
our words.
You nearly
mastered
absence.
How dare
you die.
First appeared in New American Writing