Kunhar: Poem by Hibah Shabkhez
Kunhar: Poem by Hibah Shabkhez
Pouring out of the mountain-nestled crock
Which glimmers green, white and blue in the breath
Of heaven, the simmering river flings
Itself upon rocks, worms through dank crevices,
Seeps, oozes, crawls, through sand and silt that mock
Its sea-yearnings, with conniving devices
Hidden by fey nonchalance as it sings,
Gurgles, meanders, battling drought and death;
And I bless the broken water
Making me whole.
