A woman created the sun
Inside her
And her hands were beautiful
The earth plunged beneath her feet
Assailing her with the fertile breath
Of volcanoes
Her nostrils quivered her eyelids drooped
Weighed down by the heavy silt of the pillow
It is night
And the calm wound where the breathless void dies
Strikes, struggles, opens and quietly closes
on the swaying rod of Noah the explorer
Copyright © 2023, Emilie Moorhouse, translated from the French written by Joyce Mansour, Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems of Joyce Mansour, City Lights Books
"A woman created the sun"
Emilie Moorhouse, translation from
the French written by Joyce Mansour
the French written by Joyce Mansour