Ali Znaidi- A Poem

Sonnet 3

 

midday devoid of

sunlight full

of solar eclipse

filled with opacity & black fog

butterflies blinded

went astray

collided with each other

smashed against the walls

like colourful glasses

dead butterflies

stuck on the walls

afternoon filled with sunlight

walls filled with butterflies corpses—

a canvas astounding Salvador Dali

 

Ali Znaidi lives in Redeyef, Tunisia. He graduated with a BA in Anglo-American Studies in 2002. He teaches English at Tunisian public secondary schools. He writes poetry and has an interest in literature, languages, and literary translations. His work has appeared in The Bamboo Forest, The Camel Saloon, phantom kangaroo, BoySlut, fortunates.org, Otoliths, and is upcoming in The Rusty Nail, and Yes,Poetry. He also writes flash fiction for the Six Sentence Social Network—http://sixsentences.ning.com/profile/AliZnaidi.