Tag: death

FATE OF LIFE Long ago there lived a boy called Tussime Fred a Munyankole from Western Uganda who lived in ...

This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,— The simple news that Nature told, With tender ...

  FROM THE PORTHOLE   To be in the world as on a ship: to attend to the wellbeing of ...

The ghosts of sea salt corpses wander barangai coloco do not stop to pick up strangers of barnacle flesh soaking ...

TO THE SOUTH OF THINGS   In silence we return to where the sea, in winter, has the dirty colors ...

To my sister Noura (Aleppo, 28 October 1975 - Ancona, 30 October 2014) Guardian of memory I appointed my insomnia ...

            CHECKPOINT   Walter Benjamin, who committed suicide in front of the security gate at the border at Portbou, which ...

Poem in time of war, 2006   1   She reaches in sleep for her brother’s hand Her small fingers ...

Stuart Cooke's introductory essay to the 2 Mapuche poets is available in the Non Fiction section of The Dreaming Machine ...