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8993 06/02/2010
MOTHER (poem)
IMEN BENNANI


Mother





Who is that woman drifting



to the darkness of oblivion?



Why is she strange like a city



I visit for the first time?



Why has she become so distant?



like a dark spot buried in the horizon…



Indistinct like a dead dried dot drained of life’s ink



Dimmed like a hazy thought swallowed in the pits of neglect…



Insignificant like a sad look erased by the icy hand of indifference



A vague recollection



Who is that woman who breastfed me?



Who is that creature that milked remembrance out of me.







c: Imen Bennani, June 2, 2010



Imen Bennani is a Tunisian poet and teacher, studying Arab American Poetry for her Ph.D. We are pleased to welcome her to T.A.N. We feel she holds great promise as a poet and scholar.