Truths are
department stores:
you are going up,
you take the escalator,
you don’t come back
In the tentative
darkness of the
raisins there was
half of the
sun
then the shadow
of the past
Sometimes I get ready for the
voyage of no return,
but dawn raises the curtains,
and my adolescence
is standing at the corner
of nowhere
Under the wonder of
cold skies
Copyright © 2019 by Sarah Riggs, translated from the French written by Etel Adnan, Time, Nightboat Books
from “No Sky”
Sarah Riggs, translation from
the French written by Etel Adnan
the French written by Etel Adnan