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Sunday, 24 April 2022

Let my pen - Djibril Sall

Let my pen
gather the pollen
from SPIRIT’S flower:
Free is my heart
Free my thought,
Oh the celestial palette!
rime fetters me
the quatrain torments me
the caesura sections me
the alexandrian fences me in:

JAIL!

Djibril Sall (born 1939) Mauritanian
Translated by Pierre Joris
Source: Nomadics

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