Alsof hij wilde zingen

MYSTERIOUS SKY


They found him.
His outstretched hand was blue and flat
like space beneath a swallow's wing.
His mouth was slightly open
as though he wished
to sing.


© Wadih Sa’adeh


Gedicht van de Week op Poetry International Web.

Uit: Wadih Sa’adeh A Secret Sky, Charnwood, Australia, Ginninderra Press, 1997 - Engelse vertaling: Anne Fairbairn.
Oorspr. verschenen in Beirut, 1992 (Dar Al-Jadid pub.)

Sa’adeh (1948, Libanon), liefhebber van Rimbaud, Baudelaire en Ginsberg, debuteerde in 1973 met de bundel Laysa Lil Massa’ Ikhwah
(De Avond Heeft Geen Broers).

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