Sibyl Ruth
Princess in Exile
The house is an assembly of stairs. Passages.
It’s perched above a sweatshop.
Trains hurtle through the cellars after dark.
A child rides his bicycle round and round the table.
The first room has a fish on the wall.
The second grows stars on the ceiling
and looks out on a forest of weeds.
This is where the bombs fell before you came.
Here the brewer’s palace reaches up and up.
A spaceship of metal and glass,
it kisses the air.
Paper sellers stand at your door and cry,
Stop the riots!
Every morning you walk down the road
trying not to see the men in dirty coats.
unhooking the bodies, shouldering them out of vans.
How can there be so many bodies?
The old pastrycook’s shop is round the corner.
He offered you sweetened dough
in the shape of a ring
and you wish to live happily...
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