Two Rivers
The antique gufa drifts across
the unstable Tigris and Euphrates,
like Rimbaud's drunken boat,
two rivers which mirror
the Tywi and Teifi with their coracle,
their gufa
movements uncontrolled in time
which pulse, circle and swirl,
caught by a wild, vicious tide.
Turning towards the shore's eyes
an habitual moon silvered
the green memory of reeds
whose ancestors knew the culture of communication
onto tablets of Mesopotamian clay;
a sudden return to dust once chaos entered,
indifferent eddies, those shifts for power
joined by an adverse,
unfathomable desire.
the unstable Tigris and Euphrates,
like Rimbaud's drunken boat,
two rivers which mirror
the Tywi and Teifi with their coracle,
their gufa
movements uncontrolled in time
which pulse, circle and swirl,
caught by a wild, vicious tide.
Turning towards the shore's eyes
an habitual moon silvered
the green memory of reeds
whose ancestors knew the culture of communication
onto tablets of Mesopotamian clay;
a sudden return to dust once chaos entered,
indifferent eddies, those shifts for power
joined by an adverse,
unfathomable desire.
gufa - Iraqi coracle
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