2024-09-27

Fite Fuaite / Woven Cities


Fite Fuaite is an ekphrastic poem in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock inspired by We Shall Return by Palestinian artist Imad Abu Shtayyah.

Woven Cities

All things
can be patched together
artfully

every street
every lane
every roof

with sinews
arteries
and muscle

cities can shine again
in the morning sun
like bones


Fite Fuaite

Is féidir an uile ní
a fhí ina chéile
go cliste
P
gach sráid
is gach lána
gach díon

le féitheoga
le hartairí
le matáin

cathracha ag lonrú arís
faoi ghrian na maidine
ina gcnámha