SIX POEMS BY KEN NORRIS

MOROCCAN WOMEN

 

The Moroccan women are everywhere,

silent, wearing their kaftans

and expressionless faces. They array themselves

in colors: blues, greens, reds,

walk across fields carrying water to their sheep,

ride donkeys slowly past the stopped train.

They are everywhere, and invisible, at one

with the landscape, silent

with the silence of eclipsed centuries.

 

 

 

Sidi Kacem

 

 

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