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Drunkenness Mounting the stairs of grapes

With bunches of grapes
I sewed
My own ladders
Of drunkenness.
While ascending
Robed in its own cloud
The sky slipped
Like a glass
Which on my lips splintered
Into stars
And overflowed through God’s wound . . .
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© Translation: 2004, Norddine Zouitni

DRUNKENNESS MOUNTING THE STAIRS OF GRAPES

© 2002, Mohamed Bouchkar
From: Khabtu Tair
Publisher: Dar Attakafa, Casablanca

Mohamed Bachkar

Mohamed Bachkar

(Morocco, 1969)

Mohamed Bachkar was born in 1969 in Rabat, Morocco. He is a poet, writer, and journalist. As a matter of fact, because of the interesting weekly column he writes in al-Alam newspaper, many readers first came to know him as a young gifted journalist. His journalistic style is a unique combination of commentary, wit, and poetry.

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Drunkenness Mounting the stairs of grapes

With bunches of grapes
I sewed
My own ladders
Of drunkenness.
While ascending
Robed in its own cloud
The sky slipped
Like a glass
Which on my lips splintered
Into stars
And overflowed through God’s wound . . .
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© 2004, Norddine Zouitni
From: Khabtu Tair

Drunkenness Mounting the stairs of grapes

With bunches of grapes
I sewed
My own ladders
Of drunkenness.
While ascending
Robed in its own cloud
The sky slipped
Like a glass
Which on my lips splintered
Into stars
And overflowed through God’s wound . . .
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© 2004, Norddine Zouitni

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