The Road Beneath Our Feet
Mémorial Des Martyrs De La Déportation. Paris – 2000
Mémorial Des Martyrs De La Déportation
“…to be the shadow among shadows” —Robert Desnos
A man is five stairs
from the top of
a flight of thieves
he is shadow passing
through shadow
he recedes into shadow
he has come to commune
with the martyrs for he
is anonymous too
— Emily Ferrara
Emily Ferrara is a poet and writer who lives in Jack Kerouac’s Lowell, Mass. She is author of The Alchemy of Grief/Alchimia del dolore, winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize and published in a bilingual edition with Italian translation by Sabine Pascarelli. Emily is founder and curator of the virtual Global Quarantine Museum, and editor of Pendemics Journal, an international arts and literary publication that explores themes associated with the global pandemic (globalquarantinemuseum.com).
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