Non-terminal

Non-terminal

BY FADY JOUDAH
No shards
where one is bound to no place in the first place
all shards

we were clear on that from the beginning
Absence is always sudden to hear your voice

once more more
echo than shrapnel qualia of the forbidden
transforms itself into wounds regenerates

a hydra or lizard tail
touch me

I’m alive again
there isn’t enough time or proximity
for your essence or mine          to vanish
we’ll remain

fire and ice who turn to glass
that doesn’t shatter
mercury

if it shatters
Source: Poetry (January 2015)