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Anna Hoffmann [Germany]

    “Forty years are like a single day if you let the wind pass over theman do not say no …”                                                                             B. Brecht, “ In the Jungle of Cities ”   No   I will wake   - and dream build a wind trap, a trap of Sinter   and humming sand. No longer does the wind pass though hair an ribs, where, sated of hunger and weary of toil, a YES ripens year by year. NO There I want nothing but do devour beauty words and from the words strip the skin, and from the skin the skin. What remains shall ripen under the sun.       Baghdad   I understand nothing, nothing at all, not the journey from the airport to the hotel, or the sleeping behemoths batting their eyelash prayers, or the moon over Baghdad calling...