Voices from Haiti: Job (Kreyol version)
Pou Joel Sainton. The visual poem Job in Kreyol.
Pou Joel Sainton. The visual poem Job in Kreyol.
When a brave woman’s out walking
she’s Mistress Life’s spitting image
(Michel-Ange Hyppolite)
His voice is licked
but his dreams
are the artillery of words loaded
to uncoil our strength.
(Michel-Ange Hyppolite)
Ti Gason An Ble
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There is beauty here,
Even among the broken buildings
Broken bodies
Broken souls