Poetry
Translated from the French by the author
The following is an excerpt from The Arab Apocalypse, Copyright 1989 by Etel Adnan, with drawings by the author.
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The sun paces the sky like a trapped animal 
Fat human faced pig never dimmed yellow sun 
Hou hou hou
I saw chickens in the sun's eye I saw a dog TORTURE!
BURN is the film thunder and sun over CUBA 
a cargo of light Houuuuu
Beirut the Yellow in its forest of guns 12 and May and 75 MUTE SEWN CITY
The sun has its mouth stitched with with barbed wire STOP butcher's Arab sun
A sun of iron walks in a forest of guns 
an eye bursts open STOP
Ishi cried this morning 
STOP I counted up to 5 STOP the sea is on the phone
yellow sun exterminated ancestor sun green spring purple sun quasar
the sun has fallen in anti-matter there where mornings go ARCHANGEL
the sun spread in the acid city of Beirut burned with sulfur
More irreversible than death is the sun 
Round cloth and rooster's head
They carried the sun on the back of a donkey to the top of the hill 1000 men came 
A sun laid disfigured STOP 
Two airplanes. STOP interminable ambulance
the pink column smashed the face STOP the stone column broke the spine
a purple sun siezed with vertigo speed in its protuberances 