{"id":60,"date":"2014-01-05T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsfromarevolution.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/05\/snow-in-cairo\/"},"modified":"2014-01-05T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T12:16:00","slug":"snow-in-cairo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsfromarevolution.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/05\/snow-in-cairo\/","title":{"rendered":"SNOW IN CAIRO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All that is ugly shivers, unprepared for beauty.
Rubbish mounds,  frozen cats, broken chairs 
swell to soft round hips, building sites pose in lace,<\/span><\/div>\n
pyramids shine, ghostly. Minarets plume the sky
The city is a stranger.
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People  huddle around  televisions,  <\/span>
watch snow  flakes herd across the screen.<\/span>
People hang from windows, drink snow like milk.
It\u2019s unbelievable, they say. A miracle.
They drive  to see the snow, parking where
the city expires in frosted breath,<\/span><\/p>\n

stand on ledges of forgotten space,
pale mutations of themselves, still and silent,<\/span>
marvelling  at cold ash drifting – a soft caul
of  something newborn, nameless, voiceless,
a forgotten god, 
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until, the children run, galaxies riding their backs, <\/span>
shoes biting ice, waving  palms
wreathed in crystal, tasting sky – expecting sugar.
The curtain thickens, snowballs fly,<\/span>
a  snowman stares, stone eyed
at footprints gouging, the caul splitting.
A terrible silence is born.
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More of my poetry can be read on http:\/\/www.odyssey.com, http:\/\/www.chanticleer-press.com\/, http:\/\/www.vivimusmag.com\/poetry.html<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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