If I had written to you earlier
and heard how everything had changed
and how, instead of Djibouti in June, you set sail
from Alex in July,
I would have joined you and been the third on your crew
and come with you on your French friend’s catamaran
to Jiddah! Eritrea! Aden! Seychelles! — even if,
as you write,
the visas will be difficult.
It will be weeks, you say,
before you can write again.
Just last week
I was in Cairo.
Moez Surani received a Chalmers fellowship in 2008. His first poetry collection, Reticent Bodies, was published in 2009.
Canada & its place in the world. Published by
the non-profit charitable
Walrus Foundation
June 2012
The Walrus HOOPP Pension Debate
Be It Resolved That Canadians Are Incapable
of Saving for Their Retirement Needs Alone
12 pm, Wednesday, May 30 at
Hart House Debate Room, Toronto
The Walrus Glenbow Debate
Calgary’s Cowboy Culture:
Living Legacy or Just History?
6:30 pm, Thursday, June 7 at
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