Vision Of A Journey

• Hayat Chourbaji, Grade 12
• Poetry
• 2013

James blushed and turned away
Hearing her name
Ellie, Ellie, Ellie
Chant, music

Secret sacred purpose
Sound
Surprised her
A human voice, distant, dismembered

She went
Completely deaf since twenty
My lovely, hungering for your touch
They had met in a place

She watched the wake on the water
Vision of any journey
Train journey,
Rome

Had stayed with her,
The world in black and white,
Italy was a country of languid desire
Her petticoat with a despair at an open doorway,
Planned her visit