Paul Hartal Poems

"I believe this pandemic
will be less savage soon", said the Octopus.

"What do you mean? ",   asked the Porcupine.
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It was a Wednesday,
the third day of August in 1492,
when Christopher Columbus set sail
from the Iberian port of Palos.
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It is raining cats and mammoths.
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Jocelyn Bell, a young graduate student of astronomy
at Cambridge University, in 1967 observed bursts
of radio wave radiation at small intervals. They came
from a region between the stars Vega and Altair.
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Her name was Anna,
Anna from the Savanna.

She wished to be
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On a sunny day of Taurus
they cut her abdomen.
With stainless scalpels
the surgeons unlatched her uterus
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The world has changed
Because you left it
I feel your presence
But where are you now?
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The ghosts of history haunt the Balkans.
Ancient passions, unbending hatreds
turmoil the region.
Painful tragedies of the past
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On a January day
It occurred to me
It is neither
A coincidence,
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