#title Spring Poem to a Bosnian Poet
#author Marilynn Rashid
#SORTauthors Marilynn Rashid;
#date 1994
#source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/344-summer-1994/spring-poem-to-a-bosnian-poet]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2020-05-13
#notes Fifth Estate #344, Summer, 1994


<quote>
I imagine you, your voice stopped
</quote>

<quote>
by the speed with which the lives around you crumble.
</quote>

<quote>
I imagine you wanting, trying to write,
</quote>

<quote>
not about the blood stains at your door,
</quote>

<quote>
not about the fragments of your family
</quote>

<quote>
huddled in basements, nor about the hate
</quote>

<quote>
rising in pandemic streams
</quote>

<quote>
but about the tree hidden in some
</quote>

<quote>
obscure alley, the last tree,
</quote>

<quote>
and not about the fact that it’s the last tree
</quote>

<quote>
but about buds that have opened into leaves,
</quote>

<quote>
about new leaves
</quote>

<quote>
with bits of light and wind in them.
</quote>