Poem

Mustafa Köz

Side by side

AGAIN

We sat in a seafront cafe
over us, a sweetened sky
we sliced melon, cut words
hydrangeas tied to rods.
I said I love you
a scops owl
loves you.

Sea was a corn field
as its heads winnowed.

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Mustafa Köz

(Turkey, 1959)

Mustafa Köz draws the political landscape of the Turkish peninsula while incorporating uncolloquial language into poetry: archaic words, unusual sequences, and dramatic metaphors. In his poems language is a way of taking action as well as being a complex container of our existence.

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AGAIN

We sat in a seafront cafe
over us, a sweetened sky
we sliced melon, cut words
hydrangeas tied to rods.
I said I love you
a scops owl
loves you.

Sea was a corn field
as its heads winnowed.

AGAIN

We sat in a seafront cafe
over us, a sweetened sky
we sliced melon, cut words
hydrangeas tied to rods.
I said I love you
a scops owl
loves you.

Sea was a corn field
as its heads winnowed.