Amina Saïd Biography

I was born on the shores
of the sea of the setting sun
the deep green sea
the sea of the Philistines
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I spoke the language
of the world I'd come from
bore witness to a shadow
which was the shadow
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I borrowed the sun's wings
to fly toward that spot between two shores

I built towers of sand
where that shadow lived which served as my body
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to live in perpetual Sunday
sun perched on the horizon
in each thing's clarity
earth contemplates its seasons
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where the lights of the city are dancing
the trees' silence within eternal summer the ocean's silence
from which a new day is hoisted each morning
silence on the lawns where gray birds graze
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