Duras (The Mute)

Vandal Poem of the Day: September 7, 2021

 by Cynthia Cruz

The poor have no voice. The outsider, the wanderer, the lost and
forgotten remain voiceless. Duras’s muteness is their voice, is their
silence. She holds her voice back—

When we read her words we hear the echo of a scream in her
silence. It is the scream of civilization.

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