George Messo

 

it's alright

our way
of saying
we glimpsed
the abyss
but its door
has closed
once more.

breath in.
as long as
you can hold it.

nakeeb
is going down
to the river.

trout skins
plumb & cool
will know him.

light,
their ever
moving chamber,
springs them
from its trap.

nakeeb.
"ya Mustafa"
supplicants
cast their lines.

water enters
through the mouth,
finds its cul-de-sac.

breath out.


Copyright © George Messo, 2007.

George Messo's Entrances was published by Shearsman Books in 2006. His translation of Ilhan Berk’s Madrigals was published in early 2008 by Shearsman. He is working at present in Saudi Arabia.