We who went into the 4 a.m. of the world
regretting nothing but an unfinished song.
We who were murdered in the darkest lanes
and at the corner of the street.
I was much further out than you thought,
starless and fatherless, a dark water -
rescue me from this ocean.
In this part of the story I am the one who
changes minute by minute.
Beauty is the sole business of poetry -
I go on loving you like water but
every night fire breaks out from windows in Üsküdar.
Apr 14, 2019
Apr 14, 2019 at 9:34 PM UTC
We who went into the 4 a.m. of the world
regretting nothing but an unfinished song.
We who were murdered in the darkest lanes
and at the corner of the street.
I was much further out than you thought,
starless and fatherless, a dark water -
rescue me from this ocean.
In this part of the story I am the one who
changes minute by minute.
Beauty is the sole business of poetry -
I go on loving you like water but
every night fire breaks out from windows in Üsküdar.
In a Cento, every line comes from a different poem. In this one, the sequence of poets is:
Ezra Pound;
Nazim Hikmet;
Faiz Ahmed Faiz;
T. S. Eliot;
Stevie Smith;
Sylvia Plath;
Nizar Qabbani;
Pablo Neruda;
W. B. Yeats;
Robinson Jeffers;
John Ashbery;
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek.
