Amari Hamadene
1002nd Night
I undressed you to take measure of the sky,
My patience is vertical -
a pinned bug will moan of light.
You look at me, and like a calm city
you open all your reeling streets.
I write on you a dream of ultimate blood.
His secret in my fists
opens an amber letter.
I illuminate the life in your hip,
and, last sovereign of my oriental fairy-tales,
I finish the history of the world.
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Amari Hamadene is the editor in chief of the magazine ARABESQUES. He is a member of the French Writers Union and also the Maghreb delegate of the SJE (Union of Journalists and Writers) since 2001, an international organization in Paris and active in all literature domains. In Algeria he directs the Press & Communication Agency Arabesque, which he founded in 1999. Many of his poems are published or are forthcoming in Snow Monkey, Retort Magazine, Eclectica, The Carnelian, Eratio, Ken*Again, The Seneca Review, Main Street Rag, Matrix Magazine and Diner.
