De Amerikaanse dichter, schrijver en essayist Kazim Ali werd geboren op 6 april 1971 in Croydon, Engeland. Zie ook alle tags voor Kazim Ali op dit blog.
Night Prayer
I lived near the archive for years but never read it.
Instead dropped letters folded as boats into the stream at midnight.
The white lines of a graph moored me to them.
From that moment I was thirsty, remembering my earlier thirst.
Standing still at the sill of the window, wanting to know
who was looking out. But how can a window answer?
All my naval missives were cast between map and maelstrom,
and if I ever dared to pray for something real
would it be for my thirst to be quenched or for unquenchable thirst—
Dear Father, Dear Sound
I exist only two cosmic minutes after you.
What does an echo know?
You recited into my ears before I had either language or sight
“there is a Thing in the universe so immense you can’t say It”
Your whisper hand in hand with what I whispered back
is going out to the end of the universe.
Will they ever reach it?
Will they ever begin traveling back?

Kazim Ali (Croydon, 6 april 1971)
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