Mantis 18 (Spring 2020)
Amherst College
Murat Nemet-Nejat
Entropy
Wake joins the back flow of waves
distinguished from them by its color.
then it disappears.
God
Looking at the waves
Boat
disappearing in sunlight
when the eye closes.
then only a sway
of the waves.
Wave
Becomes water, then wave, then water.
Sway
its wings
approaching the waves
for bobbing jetsam
Jetsam
Jettisoned somewhere in the mind
Wake
as the mind forms the back flow of waves
distinguished from them by its color
then it disappears.
Poet, translator from Turkish poetry, essayist and editor of Eda: An OAnthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry (Talisman, 2004), MURAT NEMET-NEJAT’s more recent works include the poems The Spiritual Life of Replicants (Talisman, 2011), Animals of Dawn (Talisman, 2016), Io’s Song (Chax, 2019) and the translations of the Turkish poet Ece Ayhan’s A Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies (Green Integer, 2016), Birhan Keskin’s Y’ol (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019).U