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A review by haljonesy
Tethered to Stars: Poems by Fady Joudah
4.0
Some of my favorite lines:
May the need to ask me / about my darkness / never command you — Canopus
That you have nothing to say. That your deep sadness is free / to be deeply sad near me / some of what love is for — The holy embraces the holy
That your sadness / unbuttons my heart, kneads its clowns. That a heart remains a heart in its beyonds. — The holy embraces the holy
And as ours is / hers is never a straight line / on the lucid path / in a membranous universe — Pisces
What is the threshold / for suffering to create us equal — Sandra bland, Texas
(From bodies to souls, and souls to corpses). You said, the dead don't want to be brought back (I said I don't want to live forever alone) — descending, rising
You're not a language I am / ashamed to sing. You're a language I'm not/ ashamed to sing. — Domicile, house, cusp
Of impermanence, on whose / edges the last escape is infinite / if it is death this destiny / offers me, and in its tail end/ a conduit to another realm/ in which time spins differently / than we've known it to pass — black hole
Before I slam / into the ground from a height I had / no business reaching / through nightmare, I can't / stay calm, can't trust that / whatever ending may come/ will not be my end — Libra
You won't dry up, you're more / than starlight in ashes / or symbionts riding swells. / you're mostly / of this earth, and more cloud / than ground. — Sirius
Was I ever a moth / or you this kind of light? / one of us was dying, and one / had no wings for the journey back.
So that when I'm a stranger in the world / I can find you — Venus cycle
May the need to ask me / about my darkness / never command you — Canopus
That you have nothing to say. That your deep sadness is free / to be deeply sad near me / some of what love is for — The holy embraces the holy
That your sadness / unbuttons my heart, kneads its clowns. That a heart remains a heart in its beyonds. — The holy embraces the holy
And as ours is / hers is never a straight line / on the lucid path / in a membranous universe — Pisces
What is the threshold / for suffering to create us equal — Sandra bland, Texas
(From bodies to souls, and souls to corpses). You said, the dead don't want to be brought back (I said I don't want to live forever alone) — descending, rising
You're not a language I am / ashamed to sing. You're a language I'm not/ ashamed to sing. — Domicile, house, cusp
Of impermanence, on whose / edges the last escape is infinite / if it is death this destiny / offers me, and in its tail end/ a conduit to another realm/ in which time spins differently / than we've known it to pass — black hole
Before I slam / into the ground from a height I had / no business reaching / through nightmare, I can't / stay calm, can't trust that / whatever ending may come/ will not be my end — Libra
You won't dry up, you're more / than starlight in ashes / or symbionts riding swells. / you're mostly / of this earth, and more cloud / than ground. — Sirius
Was I ever a moth / or you this kind of light? / one of us was dying, and one / had no wings for the journey back.
So that when I'm a stranger in the world / I can find you — Venus cycle