Leave me alone.
Let birds come.
Let stones be laid on stones.
Leave me alone.
I waken streets
when I walk through processions
of trees.
Kalamazoo Nature Center, Early Autumn 2012
Under branches
I remember journeys
when I rose to foreign
suns and let the morning
seal my secrets.
Leave me alone.
A light has always
led me home.
A voice is always calling.
~AdonisAdonis. The Pages of Day and Night. Translated from the Arabic by Samuel Hazo. The Marlboro Press/Northwestern. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 2000.
Thanks for this Seido, it’s very evocative – and I enjoyed your picture too!