(from) Turkish Voices
a book by Murat Nemet-Nejat
- 1. Paradise
- 2. The rough man entered the lover's garden
- 3. Drizzle
- 4. Houri's Rose
- 5. I can't bring myself;
- 6. I who am a master in the art of complaining,
- 7. Whereas a glass of water was enough to wet your hair,
- 8. Dying In a Turkish Bath
- 9. The most beautiful woman, she was,
- 10. I love your productive hands. So many.
- 11. The clock chimed: hmmm.
- 12. A lover possesses only his love,
- 13. Through the transparent gown,
- 14. Loving was such a panacea, a blood letting
- 15. Where your face ended and your body began,
- 16. Toes,
- 17. Talcum powder, squat vaseline jar,
- 18. Left foot,
- 19. The blue spots inside my thighs
- 20. A stalk outbursts in miniature a city,
- 21. In Turkey at least
- 22. Trucks carry melons;
- 23. At the courtyard of the Blue Mosque, a secret ritual.
- 24. They sheared the cloud, the cloud now is clear;
- 25. No no no
- 26. My black mulberry, my forked darky, my Gypsy,
- 27. When quinces become pomegranates
- 28. Bury my wounded song
- 29. A watermelon broke,
- 30. Peeping Tom
- 31. What likes ice cream, sex and lives in a dark place?