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Unnamed Thing

 
 
 
 
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My toe knocks the rock
I stop to talk
to it
I pour my drink
on the ground
my mother drinks with me!
slowly
the rock assumes a shape
see the eyes
mouth
ears
it says something to me
it speaks to me
listen to the rock
remembrances of our hurts
a thousand years old
ooze out of the rock
and it pains!

                 (October 28, 1965)

Source

Khasu, Kona. “Unnamed Thing.” The Seeds of Time: A Collection of Poems. Mimeographed typescript. Monrovia, 1971. 16.

Editorial Changes

Line Typescript Changed to
17 ozz out of the rock ooze out of the rock

Weiterführende Informationen

The Liberian Literature Project

Project Editor: Martin Mühlheim

UZH English Department, Plattenstrasse 47, CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland

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