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IN MEMORY OF
Locvizza, September 30, 1916
His name was
Mohammed Sceab
Descendant
of emirs of nomads
a suicide
because he had no homeland
left
He loved France
and changed his name
He was Marcel
but wasn’t French
and no longer knew
how to live
in his people’s tent
where you hear the Koran
being chanted
while you savor your coffee
And he didn’t know how
to set free
the song
of his desolation
I went with him
and the proprietress of the hotel
where we lived
in Paris
from number 5 Rue des Carmes
an old faded alley sloping downhill
He rests
in the graveyard at Ivry
a suburb that always
seems
like the day
a fair breaks down
And perhaps only I
still know
he lived
RESTING
Versa, April 27, 1916
Who will come with me through the fields
The sunlight is scattered in diamond
drops of water
over the supple grass
I am surrendered
to the leanings
of the limpid universe
The mountains open out
in deep draughts of lilac shadow
and row with the sky
Up in the light vault
the spell is broken
And I plummet into myself
And go dark in my nest
(The poems "In Memory Of" and "Resting" appear in Giuseppe Ungaretti, "Selected Poems," Farrar Straus Giroux. Translation copyright © 2002 by Andrew Frisardi.)
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