May 06, 2010

Houses (after Kavafy)

Relentlessly, a dream has hemmed me in these hills

While the future has cast me as a bleak interpreter of signs.
And so many things to finish
That I did not pay attention to their birth,
There were no labor pains,
And they have shut me off from their hearths.

...scrap from"Houses" afer Kavafy - poems by Ngangom
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