& i hear stringed
instruments heave
unlike octaves &
it feels like sea resolving
they say Euphrates means
break or liquid
overflowing
the terror above
the black olive trees
magnetised from marrow
stiff into garden for a minute
…. do you hear the leaves
refuse to listen the flat
hooves praying the
relenting silver light
pronounced unlike
it is spoken it says
daughters point the vowels
to understanding
the river undoes a limit
a horse travels through broad
channelled places that this
appropriate moment
lies facing
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Warren Czapa lives and works in London. His poems have been published by Magma, Poetry Bus, Perverse, Burning House Press, Black Bough, Verve and Babel Tower Notice Board. His work has been longlisted for the Troubadour International Poetry Prize and commended in the Verve Festival Poetry competition.