Poetry

The Arab Apocalypse

By Etel Adnan

Translated from the French by the author

A pink doveshattered a human face A solar hair in its beak
a yellow sun stop a green sun stop a blue sun stop
I asked the sun not to dismantle my body unified for ever
the sun is bawling its heat. Bawling its pain The sound of plants STOP
a yellow sun a vociferous sun a blue sun a sun oozing its electrodes

a crazy sub a yellow sun a plam tree blinking in the sun's eye
a sun ambulance carries Christ to the insane asylum Close to the monkeys

a yellow sun hates the color green sun hating plants Hou ! ! !
the sun swings from one universe to another STOP the sun swings from one universe to another

My right eye is a sun my left eye is a sun my ears two sunds

my nostrils two suns I have the sun on my forehead STOP

my feet are two suns STOP EACH FINGER is a sun
a sun at each toe STOP a sun in the arms in the anus in the neck
my feet are two sunds my ears two suns my nostrils two suns
and this sun at the mouth cancer until the end of the stars