Let my pen
gather the pollen
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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