Dunya Mikhail — Eva Whose Shadow Is a Swan
Poetry Unbound
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Love Is the Bomb to Everything
In a way these two women represent what Dunya Mikhail, I think is proposing for what's possible for a population. In many ways all of the barriers are being seen to be penetrable because love is always able to make its way through these things. The day we met in Babylon for me to interpret her, Eva found a pocket stone she'd later add to her collection of stones from different cities she kept in a glass bowl. We strolled roadsides piled with rocks blasted from bridges and buildings now bent and cratered. But I like to think that stone might have predated the fall of Babylon when people spoke one language.
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