Poetry – Issue 5 | June 2009
Cordoba
by Audri Sousa
je suis un chien for you, andalusia
whose air carries
apple / leather / tobacco
whose children lisp quiet prayers
in teahouses
& cut with scissors fanta cans
that become ashtrays for tourists
whose geography i swallowed
several lives ago
whose corazón beats out
of tram doors
after the reluctant fleeing of suns
from this empire
long gone from the barrios
that fold accordion pockets
eastly and westly
through cordoba
from blurs of caliphate green
tiled living houses
are my sisters
whose movement i must
upkeep
with pilfered motel pen,
nine euro,
tea that carries
apple / leather / tobacco
onto a taxicab seat
at the side of maimonides
About the author
Audri Sousa was born with wanderlust. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Abjective, Breadcrumb Scabs, Transfer Magazine, and Word Riot. She has set foot on three continents and her favourite places in which to get irreversibly lost include Andalusia, Greece and Turkey. She currently lives in California.
Read our current issue, Issue 5 | June 2009:
Poetry
Berlin by Sy Margaret Baldwin
Two Poems by Sean Edgley
After Your Funeral I Set Out to Find You in Different Time Zones by Jennifer Faylor
Painter by Ricky Garni
Other Than by Dana Guthrie Martin
Two poems by Timothy Kercher
Five Views of Guanajuato: A Mythology by Athena Kildegaard
Two poems by Mary Kovaleski Byrnes
Goya by Trent Nutting
The Changing of the Flowers by Jennifer Saunders
Two poems by Ken Turner
Postcard prose
Buttons by Jennifer Faylor
The Enemy Tree by Kirby Wright
Escape on the Canal by Addie Zierman
