{"id":14898,"date":"2016-09-01T09:52:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=14898"},"modified":"2016-09-01T09:52:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:52:53","slug":"baalbeck-by-etel-adnan-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/baalbeck-by-etel-adnan-4\/","title":{"rendered":"BAALBECK by Etel Adnan (4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

20.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will not come back
\n<\/span>to hear Ella Fitzgerald
\n<\/span>sing over the columns.
\n<\/span>Neither will
\n<\/span>she.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

21.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clouds pile up,
\n<\/span>turn into human
\n<\/span>forms<\/span><\/p>\n

on the bed of rivers
\n<\/span>an inscription always dissolves,
\n<\/span>then appears again, <\/span><\/p>\n

as the sky has already
\n<\/span>told me.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

22.<\/span><\/p>\n

When no one is waiting for us
\n<\/span>any longer, there’s
\n<\/span>death,
\n<\/span>so faithful.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

23.<\/span><\/p>\n

Broken souls are not
\n<\/span>anonymous,
\n<\/span>no more than the
\n<\/span>geometry reserved
\n<\/span>for my naked feet.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

24.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are moments when
\n<\/span>the past ceases to be a form
\n<\/span>of the present.<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>Rain and tears
\n<\/span>resemble each other.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

25.<\/span><\/p>\n

Syria has always been the mother
\n<\/span>of chaos. A land parallel to
\n<\/span>all the others. In the epiphany
\n<\/span>of a sun to come,
\n<\/span>breathless.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

26.<\/span><\/p>\n

The olive tree in Delphi,
\n<\/span>next to the temple of Sikiyon,
\n<\/span>remembers the oracle
\n<\/span>saying that
\n<\/span>somewhere in the plain
\n<\/span>linking the Red Sea
\n<\/span>to the Dead Sea,
\n<\/span>music will
\n<\/span>displace the sky.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

27.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ruins are relics.
\n<\/span>The ligneage being of
\n<\/span>little importance,
\n<\/span>we’re related to them.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

28.<\/span><\/p>\n

Talal Haydar is closer to the
\n<\/span>truth than I am, being\u00a0 <\/span>of this
\n<\/span>place.
\n<\/span>He used to pick up
\n<\/span>the moon between the stones
\n<\/span>and take her to his bed…
\n<\/span>These days, he bends to
\n<\/span>pick up a flower,
\n<\/span>finds traces of blood.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Etel Adnan <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>(translated by Sarah Riggs)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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