Exodus From Dust-Ash Desert Poem by Mustafa Hadithi

Passing stairs of tombstones-strawflowers
Climbing mountains, the sun (tattooed on fire) fell
Into river—is the grave of stars (buried with brass carpet-clouds)
Hollow-eyed night came blind, wind through the bald forest, streamed
We walked on carcass-dunes with smell of dead remains
They slaughtered pagans here to water goddess lips
... crucified on water, I sailed the ivory sea and the stars in shiver-sky, whispered
Whispered: her burned songs to me, on rocks, mirror-waves shattered
Exodus from dust-ash desert