Erín Moure

Erín Moure

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You can read this poem in the following translations:

Théâtre de l’Espoir d’un Cebola (Santiso) (French)
Theater von der Hoffnung einer Cebola (Santiso) (German)

Theatre of the Hope of a Cebola (Santiso)

On the hill there is no hay
but rain

no hay for a hayrick but
small rivulets singing the grass down

An onion has toppled off a high cart
the chest of the high cart has gone on past the hill

if pressed with a shoe an onion toppled
may take root

Will a shoe ever find it
how can we know

will the onion find a mouth to eat it
how can we ever know

In the channels of water :
small blue rivulets of blue

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© House of Anansi Press / Erín Moure

From: Little Theatres

House of Anansi Press, Toronto 2005

Audio production: 2007, Literaturwerkstatt Berlin