After the Genocide
By Fady Joudah
A violence exiting is still a violence.
After the genocide, the genocide.
The river that would have carved
a different earth, the river
a carved earth summoned.
But since the flood,
the magnificent flood,
your eyes on the fire,
your indifference exiting.
Is this love? But since
the last dropped bomb
your indifference entering.
After the genocide,
the genocide.
Fady Joudah îs a poet for our times & all. He is the author of six collections; most recently, […]. He has translated several collections of poetry from Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize.