Remembering Sargon Boulus (1944-2007)
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When he turns his eye to Iraq, he focuses on the devastating effects of the last few decades, especially the embargo. In “I Came to You from There,” a deceased friend’s ghost visits the poet in San Francisco to tell him what has become of Iraq:
Your family is fine
They send their best from cemeteries
Baghdad is a spike of grain
to which grasshoppers cling
I came from there
It is annihilation
He said
Then he walked away and disappeared
everywhere