Nile Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin, Ethiopian Poet Laureate, August 1997
I am the first Earth Mother of all fertility. I am the Source, I am the Nile, I am the African, I am the beginning! O Arabia, how could you so conveniently have forgotten, While your breath still hangs upon the threads of my springs? O Egypt, you prodigal daughter born from my first love,…
