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David Adès: I

I the stubbornness that brooks no argument,
I the prayer, I the lover, I the blessing and the curse,
I the question, I the answer,

December 3, 2024 · 10 Comments

David Adès: Our Griefs

When they were little and not yet anguish
we nurtured our griefs,
we coddled them,
said there, there, things will get better.

November 7, 2024 · 11 Comments

Zeina Azzam, Andy Young, David Adès: Three poems about Gaza

Only the children, terrified, wide-eyed,
have no complicity as we lead them, again,
sacrificial lambs to the slaughter.

October 30, 2023 · 8 Comments

David Adès: Walkabout

What is sacred to you should be sacred to me…

May 12, 2022 · Leave a comment

David Adès: These Are the Men

Into the lush gardens of their hearts
they took me,
gardens of unexpected flowerings
amid bracken and tangles of vines

July 8, 2021 · 1 Comment

David Adès: Premonitions of Catastrophe

This was not the burning of witches or heretics
but the burning of a continent

July 7, 2020 · 2 Comments

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